Supreme Court of India

Vishwanath v. The State of Uttar Pradesh

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Reported as [1960] 1 S.C.R. 646
Bench Syed Jaffer Imam J.
Decided 3 September 1959

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Criminal Trial-Right of private defence-When extends ta causing death-Whether mere abduction which is not punishable gives right of private defence to cause death of abductor-Husband trying to take away wife forcibly from her father:s house-Wife's brother stabbing husband and killing him-If protect.d by right of private defence-Indian Penal Code, I86o (XLV of I86o), ss. 97, 99 and IOO, The relations between one and his wife were strained and she went to live with her father and her brother V, the appel­ lant. , with three others, went to the quarter of and he went inside and came out dragging

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