Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 378 · Decided 21 March 2025
Sudam Prabhakar Achat v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 378 · [2025] 3 S.C.R. 897
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 641/2024
- Decided
- 21 March 2025
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304, 300, 34; CrPC
Headnote
Issue arose as to whether the conviction u/s.302 IPC could be converted into s.304 Part I or Part II IPC. Penal Code, 1860 - ss.304 Part I, 300 exception IV, 302 - Culpable homicide not amounting to murder - Alteration of conviction to a witnesses - Reliability - Quarrel on account of previous enimity between the accused persons and the deceased who were brothers - Upon confrontation, the co-accused and his son-appellant became aggressive, and the co-accused armed with axe and the appellant armed with stick
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)