Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1092 · Decided 26 September 2008
Budhi Lal v. State of Uttarakhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1092 · [2008] 13 S.C.R. 1015
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1537/2008
- Decided
- 26 September 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
t ' Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 304 (Part I) - Murder - Prosecution case· c that accused murdered his wife - Visitor in the house witnessed accused assaulting his wife - Conviction u/s 302 and RI for life by courts below - Justification of - Held: Presence of the -+ witness in the himself accepted that he was with deceased at the night of occurrence - Also D statement by the daughter of accused that herfather suspected his wife was having illicit relationship with witness- Thus, courts below rightly held accused guilty - However, on facts, convic- tion altered to one
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