Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 97 · Decided 17 February 2003
Ghapoo Yadav and ORS. v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 97 · [2003] 2 S.C.R. 69
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 229/2003
- Decided
- 17 February 2003
- Bench
- SHIVARAJ V. PATIL, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 148, 149, 300
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860; Ss. 148"149, Exception 4 to Section 300: Deceased succumbed to injuries inflicted by accused in a sudden c quarrel-Trial Court convicted accused under Section 300 rlw Section 149- Upheld by High Court-On appeal, Held: Though one of the injuries was held to be of grievous condition-Besides assaults were made at random and it was not the case of the prosecution that accused came prepared for attacking the deceased-Under the facts and circumstances of the case, D causing of such injury could not be termed to be either in a cruel or unusual manner but in the heat
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