Supreme Court of India

Rajput Jabbarsingh Malaji v. State of Gujarat

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Reported as [2011] 6 S.C.R. 978
Bench Asok Kumar Ganguly and Deepak Verma JJ.
Decided 24 May 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that there F is no scope for any interference in the concurrent findings recorded by the two courts below.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

PENAL CODE, 1860: c s.302 - Murder- Accused causing severe axe blow on the face of victim, resulting in his death - Conviction and sentence of imprisonment for life upheld by High Court - HELD: From the evidence of prosecution witnesses, recovery of blood stained scarf of accused and blood stained axe at 0 the instance of the accused, the FSL report and the evidence of the wife of deceased corroborated by the medical evidence, it could not be disputed that the deceased had met the homicidal death on account of severe wounds on his face caused by the accused with the axe - In this view of the

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