Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 498 · Decided 30 October 2012
Ramachandran v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 498 · [2012] 9 S.C.R. 919
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 732/2008
- Decided
- 30 October 2012
- Bench
- SWATANTER KUMAR, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: A B s. 302 - Murder - Circumstantial evidence - Accused c causing murder of his wife by forcibly administering poison to her and smothering - Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment awarded by trial court affirmed by High Court - Held: There is ample evidence of prosecution violence almost on 0 a daily basis - There was motive for the offence - The clinching evidence establishing that the death was caused in the matrimonial house by forcible administering of poison to deceased and by smothering - Thus, there is no break in the chain of evidence which could
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