Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 742 · Decided 26 October 2010
Sudhakaran v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 742 · [2010] 12 S.C.R. 873
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 389/2007
- Decided
- 26 October 2010
- Bench
- B. SUDERSHAN REDDY, S.S. NIJJAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 84
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B c ss. 302 and 84 - Murder - Husband inflicting fatal assault on wife with chopper on her neck - Husband claiming defence of insanity - Conviction uls. 302 by courts below - Interference with - Held: Not called for - Ocular evidence corroborated by medical evidence -All of the accused - No evidence that accused was suffering from mental illness at the crucial time as a/so before and after the incident - Evidence. s. 84 - Defence of insanity - Claim of - Held: While claiming such defence, claimant has to prove that his E cognitive faculties were so impaired, at
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