Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 470 · Decided 26 April 2007
Shakti Dan v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 470 · [2007] 5 S.C.R. 673
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 630/2007
- Decided
- 26 April 2007
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, D.K. JAIN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 302, 323, 300
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860: s. 304 Part I-Prosecution ulss 302 and 323 I.P.C.-For causing death of mother-Conviction by courts below uls 302-In appeal to this Court C absence of intention to kill pleaded-Held: Jn view of the facts of the case and the principles of Law conviction uls 304 Part I would be of-Discussed. Appellant accused was prosecuted for causing death of his mother. D Prosecution case was that PW-6 (brother of the accused) submitted a report before a Police Official (PW-11) stating that when accused was beating his wife, she ran away and reached the house of PW-6. His mother
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