Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 71 · Decided 19 January 2022
State of U.P. v. Jai Dutt and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 71 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 215
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 37/2022
- Decided
- 19 January 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 326, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302 and 326 - Murder - Conviction by trial court u/s.302 accepting the prosecution case that the accused persons armed with deadly weapons went to the agricultural field were the victim (complainant's father) was working and beat him, resulting in his to that u/s.326, primarily on grounds that the victim died six days after the incident and no fracture was found on his head - Justification - Held: Not justified - Merely because the victim died six days after the incident not a ground to set aside the conviction u/s.302
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