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Thangaiya v. State of Tamil Nadu

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Reported as [2004] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 786
Bench Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.
Decided 8 December 2004

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Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 299, _ 300, 302 and 304 Part 1 "Murder" and "culpable homicide not amounting to murder"- Distinction between-Accused gave one blow with a small stick to the deceased-The trial convicted the accused under S. 302-High Court upheld the conviction-Correctness of-Held : All 'murde1'' is 'culpable homicide' but not vice versa- 'Culpable homicide' sans 'special characteristics of murder is culpable homicide not amounting to murder'-It cannot be said as a universal rule of application that whenever one blow is given S. 302 is ruled out-In the instant case one blow was

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