Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 298 · Decided 13 April 2011
Babulal Sahu v. State of Chhatisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 298 · [2011] 5 S.C.R. 313
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1523/2007
- Decided
- 13 April 2011
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, C.K. PRASAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 300
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Refusal of wife to have sexual relation with her husband, infuriating him and he C committed the murder of his wife by strangulating her - Conviction and sentence u/s. 302, by the courts below - Appeal before Supreme Court - Plea of the husban.d that the case fell and thus, he was liable for conviction u/s. 304 Part (I) or (II) - Held: Husband caused o as many as 14 injuries on the neck of the deceased and strangulated her with enormous force - He took undue advantage of the fact that he was male and was much stronger physically and the murder Was committed
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