Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 24 · Decided 12 January 2023
Prakash Nayi @ Sen v. State of Goa
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 24 · [2023] 1 S.C.R. 823
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2010/2010
- Decided
- 12 January 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, M.M. SUNDRESH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 84; CrPC; Evidence Act Section 8, 105
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and s.84 - Plea of Insanity - "Schizophrenia" - Accused-appellant was convicted and sentenced u/s. 302 IPC for having caused the death of the victim-deceased by attacking him at a store in which the deceased was working, with an iron of trial, the defence pleaded insanity - At one of the hospitals where the accused was undergoing the treatment before the date of incident, it was recorded that the accused was suffering from anxiety neurosis with reactive depression and has symptoms of acid peptic disease and mild
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