Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 109 · Decided 19 February 2013
R. Kuppusamy v. State REP. BY Inspector of Police, Ambeiligai
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 109 · [2013] 4 S.C.R. 136
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1706/2008
- Decided
- 19 February 2013
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder - Life imprisonment C - Homicidal death of 10 month old girl child due to drowning - Prosecution case that the child had been thrown into the well by her father (appellant) as there were problems between the appellant and his parents regarding for the family - Conviction of appellant by Courts below on D basis of extra-judicial confessional statement made by him before PW1 - Justification of - Held: Justified - Extra judicial confessional statement attributed to appellant found to be voluntary, truthful and unaffected by any
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