Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 965 · Decided 27 August 2019
Khuman Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 965 · [2019] 11 S.C.R. 270
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1283/2019
- Decided
- 27 August 2019
- Bench
- R. BANUMATHI, A.S. BOPANNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 300
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 - s.3(2)(v) - Murder - Prosecution case that when victim was cultivating the field and grazing his cattle, appellant-accused came to the field of the victim and left - In a wordy altercation, the appellant hit the victim on his head with an axe due to which victim fell down and later succumbed to injuries - FIR was registered against the appellant u/s. 302 IPC and u/s. 3(2)(v) of the SC/ ST(Prevention of Atrocities) Act - Trial Court
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