Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 846 · Decided 9 December 2014
Selvaraj @ Chinnapaiyan v. State Represented BY Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 846 · [2014] 11 S.C.R. 229
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 892/2009
- Decided
- 9 December 2014
- Bench
- VIKRAMAJIT SEN, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Prosecution case that appellant-father strangulated the child and three days later the child died - Conviction of appellant uls. 302 by courts below C - On appeal, held: On facts, prosecution could not successfully prove homicidal death of the child and punishable u/s. 302 as against the appellant who is in jail for about eight years - Thus, the courts below erred in holding that the charge stood proved against the D appellant - Order of conviction and sentence against the appellant set aside. Allowing the appeal, the Court HELD: 1.1. In the
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