Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 841 · Decided 6 November 2024
Devendra Kumar & ORS. v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 841 · [2024] 11 S.C.R. 523
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 328/2015
- Decided
- 6 November 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA, K.V. VISWANATHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304, 34; CrPC Section 145
Headnote
Whether the conviction would fall for the offence punishable u/s.302 IPC or under a lesser offence. Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 304 Part I, 302, 307 read with s.34 - Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder - Previous of the appellants and the victim - Appellants assaulted the victim with weapons after making a threat that they would kill him and later the victim succumbed to his injuries - Courts below convicted the appellants u/s.302 and s.307 rw s.34 and sentenced accordingly -
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