Supreme Court of India
Satish Narayan Sawant v. State of Goa
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Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 304 (Part II) and 302 - Murder + c of one and injuries to others by accused persons - Acquittal by trial court u/ss. 302, 323, 143, 147 and 149- Set aside by High Court - Conviction of main accused uls. 302 and s(f!ntenced to life imprisonment - On appeal, held: Fatal injury was caused by stabbing and other injuries were superficial in nature - There was no intention to kill or to inflict an injury of a particular degree of seriousness - There wasi provocation . -\. and incident happened at the spur of the moment - No delay in recording FIR nor in sending it to the
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Where later benches applied it
- 2012 Subhash Krishnan v. State of Goa
- 2015 Ahmed Shah & Anr. v. State of Rajasthan
- 2014 Murlidhar Shivram Patekar & Anr. v. State of Maharashtra
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