Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Free fight - Accused also found to have sustained injuries unexplained by the prosecution - Does not necessarily give rise to an inference that there must have been a free fight...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Case of prosecution not proved beyond reasonable doubt - Prosecution not disclosed true genesis of occurrence - Evidence disclosed that occurrence took place in a different manner and at a different place in which three members of defence party also suffered serious injuries - Held, in these circumstances, appellant and other..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304 Part II, 302 -- Accused kicked deceased from behind when he was near river bridge - Deceased fell down in a gorge and suffered head injury and died because of head injury - Act of accused was an act with knowledge that it was likely to cause death but without intention to cause death - Conviction converted from that u/s 302 to S.304..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder of wife and 1-1/2 years child - Accused had earlier murdered his wife and was convicted - While on parole accused murdered his wife and 1-1/2 years child with jambia, a hunting knife used for attack, while deceased were helpless and asleep - PW21, an old woman related to accused, on hearing cries saw accused assaulting..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Death sentence - Murder of wife and 1-1/2 years child - Appellant had earlier committed murder of his first wife and was convicted - While on parole appellant committed another murder - Murder of defenceless child of 1-1/2 years, murder with jambia, a hunting knife used for attack, not ordinarily available in a house and murder..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 149, 436, 353, 147 -- Family member of accused shot dead by deceased - Accused reached the spot and lifted body of their family member and placed it under a Neem tree - Accused threw inflammable material in the house and put it on fire - 5 burnt bodies recovered - Time gap between two incidents was just 15 minutes - Case of accused..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 324, 323, 148, 149 -- Conviction - Appeal against - Plea of self defence - One on each side of complainant and accused died - Prosecution not offered any explanation as to how deceased a member of accused party received fatal and other grievous injuries - It is probable that there was free fight between both parties - When there is..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 304 -- Part II - Injuries caused with knife - Medical evidence disclosed that injuries were simple in nature - There was bleeding of trachea and it resulted in clotting of blood leading to asphyxia but that injury was not attributed to the respondent and nothing to establish that injury which resulted in death was intended by any one -..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 302, 324, 34 -- Conviction - High Court took view of self defence but convicted second appellant u/s 302 IPC for his individual act of fatally attacking deceased son and convicted other appellant u/s 304 Part I IPC - High Court's finding of self defence not a reasonable possible view - Incident took place in public street - Injuries on..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Appeal against acquittal - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - High Court found circumstances either not established or insufficient to prove the case - As to the most important circumstance namely the recovery of dead body at the instance of accused - Evidence on record discloses that a part of the dead body was exposed and had come..........
