Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 630 · Decided 20 July 2023
Shatrughan v. The State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 630 · [2023] 10 S.C.R. 758
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 437/2016
- Decided
- 20 July 2023
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 - Culpable homicide amounting to murder - Conviction u/s. 302 - Correctness of - FIR against the appellant by the informant-uncle of deceased - Allegation that the deceased had shouted that the appellant had assaulted him with a tabbal - place of incident and saw his nephew lying there with deep cut on the neck - Nephew later succumbed to his injuries - Conviction of the appellant u/s. 302 and sentenced to life imprisonment by the courts below - On appeal, held: Prosecution failed to establish the charge -
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