Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 425 · Decided 26 August 2003
Augustine Saldanha v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 425 · [2003] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 997
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 854/1996
- Decided
- 26 August 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 299, 300, 302, 304, 324
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860; Ss. 299, 300, 302, 304 and 324: Three accused persons assaulted the deceased and another-One of them died and other suffered injury-Trial Court acquitted all the accused C raising doubts on the evidence of prosec·ution witnesses-On appeal, High Court found evidence of Section 324- App/icability of Section 302-0n appeal, Held: Single blow if inflicted with a heavy or dangerous weapon on a vital part of the body of d person could D result in his death, accused would be liable for murder-Since the blow was inflicted with a stick in a dark night, inference
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