Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 136 · Decided 2 March 2021
Shivaji Chintappa Patil v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 136 · [2021] 2 S.C.R. 617
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1348/2013
- Decided
- 2 March 2021
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 313; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Prosecution case was that the appellant was addicted to liquor and used to abuse and beat his wife forcing her to get money from her mother - On the fateful night, the appellant and his wife went to sleep in of the appellant went to call the appellant for going to field for harvesting crop, appellant informed him that his wife committed suicide by hanging - Trial court convicted appellant under s.302 and sentenced him to imprisonment for life - High Court upheld the said order - On
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