Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 128 · Decided 21 February 2024
Ram Singh v. The State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 128 · [2024] 2 S.C.R. 668
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 206/2024
- Decided
- 21 February 2024
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, UJJAL BHUYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 302, 301
Headnote
As per PW-1-informant (son of the deceased), on the fateful evening when he and his brother were sitting in the open space in front of the entrance door of his house, his mother was sitting close by on a cot and some neighbours were also sitting on another cot, the instigation he fired on PW-1 but he slipped below the cot and the bullet hit his mother who died immediately. While the co-accused was acquitted on the same set of evidence, whether the conviction of the appellant u/s.301 r/w 302, u/s.307 IPC and his sentence were justified when there was no
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