Supreme Court · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 743 · Decided 19 December 2024
Ashok Verma v. The State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- [2024] 12 S.C.R. 743
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 815/2022
- Decided
- 19 December 2024
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201, 498A, 300; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Whether concurrent conviction of the appellant u/ss.302, 201 and 498A of the IPC for the murder of his wife is justified. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 201 and 498A - Concurrent conviction - Death of the wife of the appellant-convict, Plea of the appellant-convict that her death was suicidal and not homicidal: Held: Trial Court and High Court concurrently weighed the circumstances and gave sturdy reasons to conclude that death of the deceased was homicidal in nature and not suicidal - Even after seeing his wife hanged
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