Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 965 · Decided 1 November 2023
Anil Kumar v. The State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 965 · [2023] 14 S.C.R. 173
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2697/2023
- Decided
- 1 November 2023
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, PANKAJ MITHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 300, 304, 498A, 307
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Whether in the circumstances of the instant case, the appellant had any premeditated mind to kill the deceased or was it due to grave and sudden provocation which would not amount to murder or would at best be a case of culpable homicide not amounting to for a term which may extend up to 10 years or with fi ne or with both u/s. 304 Part-II of IPC. Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 and s. 304 Part-II - Prosecution case that the appellant, with the intention to kill his wife, lighted a matchstick and threw it upon her when she had
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