Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1218 · Decided 7 November 2019
Kalu Alias Laxminarayan v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1218 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 327
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1677/2010
- Decided
- 7 November 2019
- Bench
- NAVIN SINHA, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Homicidal death within the confines of house - Prosecution case was that appellant husband strangulated his wife to death - Trial court held that the victim- deceased was strangulated to death while High Court opined that she was hanged to death - commit suicide but it was a homicidal death - Conviction under s.302 - Appeal against conviction - Held: There was evidence as to strained relations between appellant and his wife (deceased) - Prosecution sufficiently established that there was cow dung on the hands of the
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