Supreme Court of India

Brajendrasingh v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [2012] 3 S.C.R. 599

Bench A.K. Patnaik J.

Decided 28 February 2012

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Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Conviction and sentence under - /legations that accused suspecting his wife having illicit relations with his neighbour killed his three young children who were asleep and sprinkled kerosene oil on his wife and put her an fire - Convicted uls. 302 and sentenced to death by courts below - On appeal held: Circumstantial evidences read with the statements of the prosecution witnesses and the statement of the accused himself prove one fact without doubt, that the accused had certainly murdered his wife - Regarding the death of the children, as alleged by the accused

Authorities it was built on

2008 Shivaji @ Dadya Shankar Alhat v. The State of Maharashtra cited by 9

Where later benches applied it

2013 Majendran Langeswaran v. State (nct of Delhi) & Anr. relied on
2013 Raj Kumar Singh @ Raju @ Batya v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2020 Manoj Suryavanshi v. State of Chhattisgarh referred to
2020 Shri Satish Kumar & Anr. v. The State of Himachal Pradesh & Anr. referred to
2014 Mofil Khan & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand referred to
2014 Md. Jamiludin Nasir v. State of West Bengal referred to
2013 Khairuddin & Ors. v. State of West Bengal referred to
2013 Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2013 Sunder @ Sundararajan v. State by Inspector of Police referred to
2023 Indrakunwar v. The State of Chhattisgarh mentioned

Of those, 2 relied on · 7 referred to · 1 mentioned

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