Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 540 · Decided 9 September 2020
Stalin v. State Represented BY the Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 540 · [2020] 7 S.C.R. 283
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 577/2020
- Decided
- 9 September 2020
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, M.R. SHAH, R. SUBHASH REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 300
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302, s. 304 and Exception IV to s.300 - Appellant-accused was convicted and sentenced u/s. 302 IPC - Appellant contended that it was a case of single injury, s. 302 IPC shall not be attracted and the case would fall u/s. 304-Part II no hard and fast rule that in a case of single injury s. 302 IPC would not be attracted - It depends upon the facts and circumstances of each case - In the instant case, PW-3 deposed that when the victim-deceased served extra beer to two persons who came from outside, the accused
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