Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 727 · Decided 24 September 2024
Sunil @ Sonu ETC. v. State NCT of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 727 · [2024] 9 S.C.R. 616
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3978/2024
- Decided
- 24 September 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, K.V. VISWANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304, 34
Headnote
Issue arose for consideration that as to whether the accused can be convicted for the offence punishable u/s.302 IPC or in the facts and circumstance of the case, the conviction needs to be altered to a lesser offence. Penal Code, 1860 - s.304 not amounting to murder - Pre-existing disputes between the parties leading to verbal altercation whereafter accused persons attacked the victims with knives and dandas, resulting in death of one - FIR lodged by one of the victim as also the appellant - Conviction of the
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