Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 337 · Decided 25 April 2014
Chaitu & ORS. v. State of Utiar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 337 · [2014] 8 S.C.R. 658
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1323/2012
- Decided
- 25 April 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, C. NAGAPPAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 3231149, 3041149, 323, 149, 302, 300, 304
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 147, 3231149 and 3041149 (Part If) - Prosecution for murder- Of 7 accused - 3 eye-witnesses C to the incident including injured eye-witness - Conviction of all the accused by trial court - Conviction and sentence confirmed in respect of 3 accused by High Court - Appeal in death - Held: Homicidal death of the deceased is established by the o evidence of eye-witnesses and medical evidence - Delay in lodging FIR has also been properly explained by prosecution - However, in the facts of the case, it was a case of grave and sudden provocation, hence would fall under
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