Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 357 · Decided 28 May 2013
Ravirala Laxmaiah v. State of A.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 357 · [2013] 6 S.C.R. 511
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2038/2011
- Decided
- 28 May 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 404
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302 & 404 - Homicidal death by ·strangulation - Conviction of appellant for killing his wife - Propriety - Held: Appellant had been doubting the character C of his wife and therefore, had adequate motive to eliminate her - In spite of the fact that he had been what circumstances his wife was found dead - Particularly, in view of the fact that the courts below excluded the theory of suicide D - Same conclusion stands fully fortified by the fact that the saree of deceased was lying in the comer of the room and the version given by the appellant that he
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