Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 179 · Decided 24 April 1961
Om Prakash v. The State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 179 · [1962] 2 S.C.R. 254
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 177/1959
- Decided
- 24 April 1961
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, RAGHUBAR DAYAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307
Headnote
254 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [1962] OM PARKASH v. THE STATE OF PUNJAB (K. SUBBA RAO and RAGHUBAR DAYAL, JJ.) Criminal Law-Attempt to murder-Accused attempting to starve a person gradually to accelerate his death-/ ngredients of the offence-Indian Penal Code (Act 45 of 1860), ss. 307, 308, 5rr. B she was deliberately starved and not allowed to leave the house in which they were living and only sometimes a morsel or so used to be thrown to her as alms are given to beggars. On June 5, r956, she managed to escape from the house and went to the Civil Hospital at Ludhiana. Her brother came
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