Supreme Court of India
Vasant Vithu Jadhav v. State of Maharashtra
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Penal Code, 1860: Section 307-Attempt to murder-Accused fired a gun from close range at the victim thereby inflicting injuries on him-Trial court found the injuries to be simple in nature and convicted the accused under S. 324 !PC-However, High Court convicted the accused under S 307 IPC-Correctness of-Held: The fact that injury was simple or minor would not, by itself, rule out application of S. 307 !PC-The determinative question was intention or knowledge and not nature of the injury-It is not necessary that the injury inflicted on the victim should be sufficient, under ordinary
Where later benches applied it
- 2014 Anjani Kumar Chaudhary v. State of Bihar and Another
- 2024 Raju and Another v. State of Uttarakhand
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