Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 517 · Decided 26 July 2011
State of Punjab v. Jagtar Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 517 · [2011] 9 S.C.R. 494
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 78/2003
- Decided
- 26 July 2011
- Bench
- V.S. SIRPURKAR, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 300, 302, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860- s.304 Part-I r/w s.34 IPC and s.300, First exception -Culpable homicide not amounting to murder c - Case of grave and sudden provocation - Four accused - Accused-respondents allegedly killed their sister 'P' and her lover 'G' - Bodies of the two deceased found in the courtyard of that he had last seen 'G' when he was being taken away by the respondents D on the pretext of serving him liquor - Trial court accepted the evidence of PW5 and convicted the respondents uls.302 r/w s.34 and sentenced them to life imprisonment - High Court, however, found the evidence of PW5
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