Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1412 · Decided 9 December 2025
Surender Kumar v. State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1412 · [2025] 12 S.C.R. 439
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 5398/2025
- Decided
- 9 December 2025
- Bench
- MANOJ MISRA, UJJAL BHUYAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 300; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Whether in the facts and circumstances of the case, the appellant could be convicted for an offence lesser than one punishable u/s.302, Penal Code, 1860. Penal Code, 1860 - s.302; Exceptions to s.300 - Conviction u/s.302, when justified - be convicted for an offence lesser than one punishable u/s.302: Held: No - There are no mitigating circumstances on basis whereof the sentence may be reduced by altering the conviction of the appellant for an offence lesser than one punishable u/s.302, IPC - Deceased was inflicted
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