Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 167 · Decided 1 February 2024
Dattatraya v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 167 · [2024] 2 S.C.R. 989
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 666/2012
- Decided
- 1 February 2024
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 316, 304; CrPC
Headnote
Whether the courts below were justified in convicting the appellant u/ss. 302 and 316 IPC and sentencing to undergo life imprisonment and 10 years of R.I. respectively along with fine, for causing death of his wife as also the child she was bearing by pouring kerosene on fire. Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 304 Part II and 316 - Culpable homicide not amounting to murder - Causing death of quick unborn child by act amounting to culpable homicide - Prosecution case that on the fateful night the husband in an inebriated state, picked a fight
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