Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307 -- Attempt to murder - Gravity of injury is not sole determining factor to determine whether accused intended to murder victim or not - Other attending circumstances like motive, situs of injury and manner of assault are equally relevant to determine intention of offender...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307 -- Attempt to murder - Accused threatened victim to withdraw an earlier criminal case - When she refused, he struck her repeatedly on neck with a sharp cutting weapon - Accused had thus, attempted to murder victim and assaulted her with a motive to murder her - Accused rightly convicted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 307 -- Attempt to murder - Modification of sentence - Accused does not have criminal antecedent - Injuries were not grave - Incident occurred at spur of moment - Balancing aggravating and mitigating factors, interest of justice would be served if sentence of accused is modified and is directed to suffer R.I for 7 years and pay a fine of..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Defamation - Genuine assessment of State of affairs of administration at a given point of time cannot amount to defamation...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 499, 500 -- Defamation - Article published in press in respect of conduct of Chief Minister in discharge of her public functions does not warrant prosecution of petitioners u/ss 499, 500 IPC - Prosecution qua petitioners quashed...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 419, 420, 468, 471, 120B -- Quashing of complaint - Offence u/ss 419, 420, 468, 471, 120-B IPC - Accused persons allegedly on pretext of renewing insurance policy duped complainant`s money - As per investigation it is an organized large-scale criminal operation to cheat several people - Merely..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302 -- Murder of wife by husband - Death by strangulation - PW1, PW2 and PW6 unequivocally establish that deceased was last seen with accused near railway line soon before the incident - On the next day dead body of deceased was recovered from place of occurrence - No explanation forthcoming from accused as to how his wife/deceased who had..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 304(Part II), 323 -- Offence u/s 304(Part II), 323 IPC - Complaint is lodged by independent person/doctor through cryptic telephonic message - Said complaint is not concocted one - Version of injured eye witness in wholly corroborated by medical evidence on record - Incident occurred on spur of moment and without pre-meditation - Deceased..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, Arms Act, 1959, Section 27 -- Murder - Testimony of sole eye witness - Where conduct of eye witness is inconsistent with ordinary course of human nature, it would not be safe to convict accused upon uncorroborated testimony of sole eye witness - Accused acquitted...........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 34, Arms Act, 1959, Section 27 -- Murder - Disclosure statement - Recovery of tip of knife - Tip of knife which was recovered on disclosure statement of accused was broken and it was not pointed but blunt - Whether type of stab and incised wound found on body of deceased could have been inflicted by a knife with a broken tip, is..........
