Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1107 · Decided 12 September 2025
Maniklal Sahu v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1107 · [2025] 10 S.C.R. 212
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 5578/2024
- Decided
- 12 September 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 300, 302
Headnote
Whether the High Court committed any error in bringing the case within the ambit of "attempt to commit murder" punishable u/s.307 IPC on the ground that the deceased-R died after a period of nine months from the date of the incident. Penal - Intention to cause death - Death occurs after several days of complications - Principle that Courts must remember: Held: If it is proved that the injury was fatal and the intention was to cause death, though the death occurred after several days of septicaemia or other
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