Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 43 · Decided 19 January 2012
Shanmughan v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 43 · [2012] 1 S.C.R. 411
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1157/2007
- Decided
- 19 January 2012
- Bench
- A.K. GANGULY, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3231302; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 3231302 - Conviction and sentence under - Death of appellant's wife as a result of poisoning on having been administered cyanide - Conviction C of appellant u/ss. 3231302 alongwith imposition of life imprisonment by courts below - lnterlerence with - Held: Not called for of the appellant - Entire chain of circumstances is consistent with the guilt of the appellant - There were clear injuries on the D deceased which show that some force was used while administering the poison - Without any force these injuries could not be there in a case of suicidal poisoning -
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