Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 148 · Decided 30 January 2025
Ashok Saxena v. The State of Uttarakhand ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 148 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 1454
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1704/2015
- Decided
- 30 January 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 301, 302, 34; CrPC
Headnote
Whether the High Court committed any error in holding the appellant guilty of the offence of murder. Penal Code, 1860 - s.301, exception 4 to s.300, s.304 Part-I - Murder - Culpable homicide by causing death of person other than person homicide not murder if it is committed without premeditation in a sudden fight - When - On facts, altercation between the parties - Appellant armed with knife and co-accused with hockey stick trespassed into the house of the first informant with the intention to lay an assault
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