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Periasami and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 757
Bench Dr. A.S. Anand and K. T. Thomas JJ.
Decided 25 September 1996

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9 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Oiminal Law : Evidence Act, 1872: Sections 101 and 105. c Burden of Proof-Benefit of general exception-Right to private defence-Availing of-Held : Initial burden on prosecution to prove that accused committed the offence charged against-Presumption regarding ab­ sence of circumstances bringing the case within the exception does not dis­ place the traditional burden of the prosecution--Accused can discharge the burden by ''preponderance of probabilities" unlike the prosecution--But there is no presumption that an accused is the aggressor in every case of homicide. Penal Code, 1860: Sections 96

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 7 mentioned

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