Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1191 · Decided 7 October 2025
Nilesh Baburao Gitte v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1191 · [2025] 11 S.C.R. 37
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1471/2013
- Decided
- 7 October 2025
- Bench
- K.V. VISWANATHAN, K. VINOD CHANDRAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- BSA; IPC Section 302; CrPC; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Appellant was convicted for matricide-killing of one's own mother. By the present appeal, the appellant calls in question the correctness of the judgment of the High Court. Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 - Matricide-killing of one's own received an unknown call informing that there was a doubtful death - Police reached the spot - Last rites of the dead body was hurriedly carried out - The body was inspected and it was found that there was strangulation mark on the neck and injury on the backside of skull with
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