Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 90 · Decided 16 January 2025
Vijay @ Vijayakumar v. State Represented BY Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 90 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 869
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1049/2021
- Decided
- 16 January 2025
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, R MAHADEVAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300, 1, 201; CrPC Section 209; Evidence Act
Headnote
Whether the appellant's act of causing the death of the deceased fell within the scope of "grave and sudden provocation" under Exception 1 to Section 300 of the Penal Code (IPC), thereby reducing the offence from murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder I IPC. Penal Code, 1860 - Prerequisite to attract application of Exception 1 to Section 300 IPC: Held: Not each and every provocation, that results in loss of self- control by accused, will convert an offence of murder to culpable homicide not amounting to murder -
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