Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1368 · Decided 13 December 2019
Suraj Jagannath Jadhav v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1368 · [2019] 15 S.C.R. 84
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1885/2019
- Decided
- 13 December 2019
- Bench
- ASHOK BHUSHAN, M.R. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300, 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s.300 Fourthly & Exception 4 to s.300; ss. 302 & 304 Part II - Appellant-accused killed his wife by setting her ablaze - Convicted u/s.302 - Issue limited as to alteration of conviction from s.302 to s.304 Part II - Held: Appellant poured when she was trying to run out of the house to save herself and was trying to open the latch of the door of the house, the appellant threw the match-stick on her person and set her ablaze - Nothing is on record that the appellant was in inebriated stage -Even looking to the
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