Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 409 · Decided 24 May 2011
Rajput Jabbarsingh Malaji v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 409 · [2011] 6 S.C.R. 978
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 943/2006
- Decided
- 24 May 2011
- Bench
- A.K. GANGULY, DEEPAK VERMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 161; Evidence Act Section 6
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: c s.302 - Murder- Accused causing severe axe blow on the face of victim, resulting in his death - Conviction and sentence of imprisonment for life upheld by High Court - HELD: From the evidence of prosecution witnesses, recovery of blood stained scarf of accused and blood stained accused, the FSL report and the evidence of the wife of deceased corroborated by the medical evidence, it could not be disputed that the deceased had met the homicidal death on account of severe wounds on his face caused by the accused with the axe - In this view of the matter, E there is no scope
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