Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 444 · Decided 28 April 2023
State of Madhya Pradesh v. Phoolchand Rathore
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 444 · [2023] 5 S.C.R. 601
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1315/2023
- Decided
- 28 April 2023
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, MANOJ MISRA, ARAVIND KUMAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302 and 201 - Acquittal under - Prosecution rested its case on the circumstances, inter-alia, (a) the accused bore a grudge against his wife for keeping jewellery with her sister (PW8); (b) on the fateful day, during day time, accused on with PW8 and threatened to kill the deceased and set the house on fire; (c) in the evening of that fateful day, the accused quarrelled with the deceased and took her with him on a bicycle, while extending threats that he would kill her; (d) later, that evening, the deceased was found in a
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