Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 360 · Decided 13 March 2019
The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Deepak
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 360 · [2019] 2 S.C.R. 1055
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 485/2019
- Decided
- 13 March 2019
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3(2)(v), 306; CrPC Section 397; SC/ST Act Section 306, 3(2)(V)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.397 r/w s.401 - Revisional jurisdiction - Exercise of, scope - Discussed - In the instant case, the prosecution case was that the victim-deceased and the respondent were employees in the Central Bank - The deceased was subjected to suicide by consuming poison - Charges were framed against the respondent under s.306 IPC and s.3(2)(v) of SC & ST Act by the Special Judge - High Court discharged the respondent from charges on the ground that there was no evidence with regard to provocation, incitement or
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