Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 345 · Decided 23 April 2015
Raj Singh v. State of Haryana ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 345 · [2015] 7 S.C.R. 268
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 701/2015
- Decided
- 23 April 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, R. BANUMATHI, AMITAVA ROY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 96to103, 300, 302; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 96 to 103, 300 exception 2, 304 c Part I - Culpable homicide - Right to private defence - Injuries on person of appellant not serious in nature - Complainant party were not carrying any arms or deadly weapons - The act on part of accused party of firing shots which resulted all to prevent any D injury which sought to be averted or which could have been reasonably apprehended - Appellant-accused acted aggressively - Plea of self defence by appellant was not sustainable - The incident took place in the house of complainant and not in the house of appellant and
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