Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 69 · Decided 21 January 2020
Paul v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 69 · [2020] 1 S.C.R. 1091
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 38/2020
- Decided
- 21 January 2020
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, K.M. JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 300, 86, 299; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Prosecution under - Initially acquittal by trial court - On appeal, case remanded to trial court - On remand conviction by Trial Court - Conviction affirmed by High Court - Appeal to Supreme Court - Plea of accused confined to benefit of exception 4 to s. 300 - Held: The present case is an unambiguous case of homicide and not a case of suicide as projected by the accused - In the facts of the case, none of the exceptions in Section 300 IPC are attracted - Section 86 IPC also not applicable in the facts
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