Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 576 · Decided 28 April 2025
K.P. Tamilmaran v. The State BY Deputy Superintendent of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 576 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 1865
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2253/2025
- Decided
- 28 April 2025
- Bench
- SUDHANSHU DHULIA, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3(2)(i), 4, 302, 218, 217; CrPC Section 154, 156, 157(1), 311; Evidence Act Section 154, 3, 155, 165
Headnote
Whether the High Court was justified in upholding the conviction and sentence of A-15 under Sections 217, 218, Penal Code, 1860 and ss.3(2)(i), 4, SC/ST Act, 1989 and modifying the conviction and sentence of A-14, while upholding the conviction and sentence Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302 r/w 149, 217, 218 - Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - ss.3(2)(i), 4 - Murder of a young couple in the name of honour killing where the girl belonged to the Vanniyar community and
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