Supreme Court of India

Surendra Chauhan v. State of M.p

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Reported as [2000] 2 S.C.R. 515

Bench D.P. Wadhwa and Ruma Pal JJ.

Decided 27 March 2000

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the sentence awarded is rather on the higher side.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code, 1860 : S.314134-Common intention-Death caused while causing miscarriage of victim with child-Accused having illicit relations with victim-Three months pregnancy-Accused taking victim to clinic of an Electro Homoeopathy prac titioner not competent to terminate pregnancy with intent to cause miscarriage of victim-Victim died in the clinic while being aborted-Confession made by accused to mother of victim-Held, accused was rightly convicted uls. 3141 34-Extra-judicial confe5·sion of accused made to mother of victim being quite natural, conviction based thereon upheld-Sentence

Authorities it was built on

1999 Rajesh Govind Jagesha v. State of Maharashtra cited by 21
1954 Dinabandhu Sahu v. Jadumoni Mangaraj and Others. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2022 Jasdeep Singh @ Jassu v. State of Punjab relied on
2020 Subed Ali and Others v. The State of Assam relied on
2013 Manjit Singh & Anr. v. State of Punjab & Anr. relied on
2010 Dharnidhar v. State of U.P. relied on
2022 Krishnamurthy @ Gunodu and Others v. State of Karnataka mentioned
2010 Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co. Ltd. & Anr. v. Datar Switchgear Ltd. & Ors. mentioned
2010 Virendra Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh mentioned
2009 Martin F. D'souza v. Mohd. Ishfaq mentioned

Of those, 4 relied on · 4 mentioned

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