Supreme Court of India

Sangaraboina Sreenu v. State of Andhra Pradesh

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Reported as [1997] 3 S.C.R. 957

Bench M.K. Mukherjee and S.P. Kurdukar JJ.

Decided 23 April 1997

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reason the appeal is allowed and the conviction of the appellant under Section 306 IPC is set aside.

Judgment, page 2

From the headnote

Criminal Law : Penal Code, 1860 : Ss. 302, 306-Accused charged with murder of his wife-Trial Court convicting him for murder-High Court setting aside the conviction u/s 302 but convicting him under s.306-Held, offence under s.306 cannot be said to be a minor offence in relation to an offence under s.302 !PC as these two offences are of distinct and different categories-Hence conviction under s.306 set aside-Code of Criminal Procedure, S.222. CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Criminal Appeal No. 182 of 1990. From the J udgmcnt and Order dated 16.8.89 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Crl. No.

Where later benches applied it

2016 R. Rachaiah v. Home Secretary, Bangalore relied on
2011 Rafiq Ahmed @ Rafi v. State of U.P. relied on
2011 Satyavir Singh Rathi v. State Thr. C.b.i mentioned
2009 Bimla Devi and Anr. v. State of Jammu and Kashmir mentioned
2008 Dinesh Seth v. State of N.C.T. of Delhi mentioned
2007 Virendra Kumar v. State of U.P. mentioned
2004 Dalbir Singh v. State of U.P. mentioned
2011 Narwinder Singh v. State of Punjab distinguished

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 distinguished · 5 mentioned

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