DEVENDRA KUMAR & ORS.versusSTATE OF CHHATTISGARH
Case No.: CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 328/2015
Decision Date: 06-11-2024
Disposal: Case Partly allowed
Neutral Citation: 2024INSC841

BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI*, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA, K.V. VISWANATHAN Issue for Consideration Whether the conviction would fall for the offence punishable u/s.302 IPC or under a lesser offence. Headnotes† Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 304 Part I, 302, 307 read with s.34 – Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder – Previous of the appellants and the victim – Appellants assaulted the victim with weapons after making a threat that they would kill him and later the victim succumbed to his injuries – Courts below convicted the appellants u/s.302 and s.307 rw s.34 and sentenced accordingly – 

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