Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 153 · Decided 4 February 2022
The State of Uttarakhand v. Sachendra Singh Rawat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 153 · [2022] 1 S.C.R. 529
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 143/2022
- Decided
- 4 February 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 300
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: Culpable homicide not amounting to murder - Prosecution case was that an altercation took place between the victim-deceased and the respondent-accused at the place of marriage ceremony - Due to intervention of villagers, matter did not proceed further - After night, when victim-deceased was near his house, accused attacked him by giving blows on his head with the "Danda/Phakadiyat", a rough piece of wood - Deceased ran towards his house for safety - Accused ran after him with "Phakadiyat" in his hand and gave
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