Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 648 · Decided 27 July 2023
NO.15138812Y L/NK Gursewak Singh v. Union of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 648 · [2023] 10 S.C.R. 1139
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1791/2023
- Decided
- 27 July 2023
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, SANJAY KAROL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 300, 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 304 Part I, s 300 exception 4 - Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder - Appellant and the victim, both Lance Naik in the Indian Army - Altercation between them on the issue of seniority, after consuming liquor - Appellant snatched the bullet at him, resulting in the death of the victim - Appellant convicted by the court martial for the offence punishable u/s. 302 rw s. 69 of the Army Act and sentenced to imprisonment for life - Order of conviction and sentence upheld by the courts below - On appeal, held:
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