Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 632 · Decided 20 July 2023
Anbazhagan v. The State Represented BY the Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 632 · [2023] 10 S.C.R. 1091
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2043/2023
- Decided
- 20 July 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, J.B. PARDIWALA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 300, 299
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - Alteration of conviction from s. 304-I to s.304-II of IPC - Single injury - Prosecution case that appellant and deceased picked up verbal altercation in regard to the pathway and the appellant had inflicted one blow with a "Hoe"-a of which the victim fell unconscious and later died - Trial Court held appellant guilty for the offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder u/s. 304-I of the IPC and sentenced him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of 10 years - High Court dismissed the appeal
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)