Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 885 · Decided 9 August 2019
R. Jayapal v. State of Tamil Nadu & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 885 · [2019] 10 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 56/2010
- Decided
- 9 August 2019
- Bench
- ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, DINESH MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34, 300, 304
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.302/34, Part-I of s.304 - Alteration of conviction from s.302 IPC to Part-I of s.304 - Prosecution case that there was long-drawn rivalry between the wife of appellant (accused no.3) and the victim-deceased - It was alleged that appellant (accused no.1) victim - Same day, in the evening, it was alleged that when victim was crossing the lane in front of the house of the appellant, the appellant came down with a spike, the accused no.2 with sickle and unarmed accused no.3 and attacked the victim - Appellant stabbed the victim on chest
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