Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 13 · Decided 7 January 2008
Ramesh Krishna Madhusudan Nayar v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 13 · [2008] 1 S.C.R. 150
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 12/2008
- Decided
- 7 January 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, AFTAB ALAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300, 302; Evidence Act Section 134
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 300, exception 4, 304 (Part /) and 302 - Murder or Culpable Homicide not amounting to murder c - Quarrel between parties over a trivial issue - Fatal blows by wooden Jog on head of deceased - Convicti.on u/s. 302 by courts below on basis of sole testimony of eye witness -On based on testimony.of single witness if he is wholly reliable - In facts and circumstances of D the case, conviction altered to s. 304 (Part I) - Custodia/ sentence altered to ten years - Evidence Act, 1872 - s. 134. s.300, Exception 4 - Applicability of - Explained. ~ s. 300, Exceptions 1 and
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