Supreme Court of India

Smt. Sandhya Jadhav v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2006] 3 S.C.R. 632
Bench Arijit Pasayat and S.H. Kapadia JJ.
Decided 31 March 2006

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Penal Code, 1860; Ss. 302, 323 r!w Section 34 and 325 rlw Section 34: Murder/Culpable homicide not amounting to murder-Sudden fight­ Single blow-Death--Exception 4 to Section 300-App/icability of-Held: For application of Exception to Section 300, accused has to establish that the act committed by him ·was without premeditation, in a sudden fight between him and the deceased and he did not take undue advantage and not having acted in a cruel or unusual manner-{t cannoi be laid down as a rule of universal application that whenever death occurs on account of single blow. Section 302 IPC is ruled

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