Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 364, 387, 120B, 365, 302, 34, 201 -- Murder and kidnapping - Conviction of four accused for demanding ransom and committing murder - No direct evidence of kidnapping or murder - No recovery of dead body - Nothing to establish that victim after his abduction was killed and he was no more - Confessional statement of co-accused being..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Death by strangulation - Contradictions in evidence of PWs hence not trustworthy and reliable - No chain to connect circumstances to establish charges against accused beyond all shadow of reasonable doubt - Doubt as to presence of witnesses at the time of occurrence - Non corroboration of time..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Double murder - Motive - Extra judicial confession - Allegation of murder of wife and son - Except for the bald statement that accused used to harass his wife neither any incident nor any action on the part of accused has been disclosed - No such complaint was ever made in any police station nor any panchayat was convened in this..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Gun shot - Conviction of three - High Court acquitted two and altered conviction of appellant from one u/s 302/34 to one u/s 302 IPC simplicitor - Prosecution case supported in all material particulars by evidence of PW1, brother of deceased - Evidence of PW1 corroborated by medical evidence - Prosecution proved its case beyond..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Wife of appellant beaten by deceased - Appellant deprived of his self control of this grave and sudden provocation and in order to save his wife and daughter assaulted the victim with a Barchi - However, appellant exceeded his right of private defence - Conviction altered from S.302 to S.304 Part I IPC and accused awarded seven years..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 377, 20, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 366, 368 -- Death sentence - Conviction u/ss 302, 377 and 201 - Accused sentenced to death - Sodomy - Accused a serial killer - Accused committed three murders on different occasions to fulfill his sexual desire - Case against accused proved beyond doubt - Conviction of accused maintained..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 326, 302 -- Injuries caused on knee i.e. on non vital part of body with aruval - Intention was not to cause death or accused cannot be said to have expected that death would be caused by inflicting such injury - Act of accused does not fall within the ambit of murder and can only be termed as grievous hurt - Three years RI awarded for..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder - Death sentence - Long standing enmity over property - Three accused butchering 5 persons including two children with axes and other weapons in a dastardly manner - Accused wanted to exterminate the whole family - Death sentence of two accused and life imprisonment of one, upheld...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 109 -- Murder - Motive - Quarrel between deceased and accused - Accused took out a button knife from his pocket and stabbed the deceased on the let side of his chest, as a result of which the deceased fell on the ground - Thereafter, all the accused ran away from the scene of occurrence - Brother of deceased took him to the hospital..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34 -- Assault with lathi, spear and gandasa - Blood not found at place of incident - If deceased had fallen on raised platform after receiving injuries, it was impossible that blood would not have fallen on platform - Place of incident disclosed by witnesses not finding support from any other natural circumstances - Claim of eye..........
