Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 753 · Decided 30 October 2014
B.D. Khunte v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 753 · [2014] 11 S.C.R. 447
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 242/2012
- Decided
- 30 October 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, R. BANUMATHI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300
Headnote
Raribir Penal Code: A B c s.300, Exception 1, and s.302 of RanbirPenal Code and s. 69 of Army Act - Appel/ant-Jawan shot dead his superior because of an earlier incident of beating and humiliation - . Conviction and life sentence affirmed by High Court - The beating and humiliation which may 0 have acted as a motive for revenge against deceased who had caused such humiliation but that is not what falls in Exception 1 to s.300 /PC which is identical to Exception 1 to s.300 of Ranbir Penal Code - Conviction and sentence upheld. Penal Code, 1860: s.300, Exception - 'Sudden
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