Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 440 · Decided 2 May 2018
Murugan v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 440 · [2018] 5 S.C.R. 677
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1498/2010
- Decided
- 2 May 2018
- Bench
- R.K. AGRAWAL, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364, 302, 34; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 364 and 302/34 -Kidnapping or abducting in order to murder - On facts, father not agreeing to proposal of main accused of marriage with his daughter - On the fateful day, main accused alongwith the appellant (his cousin brother) invited the father for dinner thereafter, the father died - Daughter had seen three of them sitting together and having dinner - Confessional statement of main accused and on basis thereof, recovery of weapons and clothes - Before trial could begin death of main accused - Conviction and sentence of
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