Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 510 · Decided 10 April 2019
The State of Rajasthan v. Kanhaiya Lal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 510 · [2019] 5 S.C.R. 569
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 645/2019
- Decided
- 10 April 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, M.R. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 304, 300
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 304 Part I - Murder - Victim attacked by accused on his head by an axe, succumbed to his injuries - Conviction and sentence of the accused for the offence punishable u/s. 302 by the trial court, however, altered by the High Court to s. 304 Part I on on his head by the accused by an axe; that there was no repeated injury; and that the victim and the accused had an altercation and there was no intention for the accused - Interference with - Held: Reasoning given by the High Court while converting the conviction from s. 302 to s. 304
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