Supreme Court · 1982 INSC 30 · Decided 4 March 1982
Ram Karan & ORS. v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1982 INSC 30 · [1982] 3 S.C.R. 395
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 329/1975
- Decided
- 4 March 1982
- Bench
- S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, D.A. DESAI, A. VARADARAJAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304(1), 34, 302, 307, 300, 149
Headnote
KARAN & ORS. v. STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH Marc~ 4, 1982 [S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, D.A. DESAI AND A. VARADARAJAN, JJ,) Sentencing-lmpqsition of appropriate Jentence, under stction 302 or 304 depends on the nature of offence of culpable homicide-Evidence showing homicide by both parties in a CiVil of culpability not proved by legal evidence- Benefit of doubt must ensue in such cases. The five accused Ram Karan, his sons Sunil Kumar, Ved Prakash, Anil Kumar, Salish Kumar and deceased son Chhoteylal filed a Civil Suit 34 of 1967 against the decased Prakash Chandra, his brother
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