Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 603 · Decided 19 May 2022
Jaswinder Singh (Dead) Through Legal Representative v. Navjot Singh Sidhu & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 603 · [2022] 4 S.C.R. 725
- Case number
- REVIEW PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 477/2018
- Decided
- 19 May 2022
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, SANJAY KISHAN KAUL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 323
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing: Enhancement of sentence - Incident pertaining to a dispute of right of way - Respondent No. 1-accused inflicted fist blows to a 65 years old man, resulting in his death - High Court convicted the accused u/s. 304 Part II IPC - However, in Court held that out of all the fist blows of the respondent, only one of them landed on the head of the deceased, that there was uncertainty regarding the cause of death, that no weapon used nor there was past enmity, thus, respondent not held guilty of death but of causing voluntary hurt to the
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