Supreme Court of India

Abdul Nawaz v. State of West Bengal

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Reported as [2012] 4 S.C.R. 560
Bench T.S. Thakur and Gyan Sudha Misra JJ.
Decided 10 May 2012

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow this appeal in part and to the extent that while setting aside the conviction of the appellant for the offence of murder under Section 302 of the IPC, we convict him for culpable homicide not amounting to murder punishable under Section 304 (I) of the IPC and sentence him G to undergo imprisonment for a period of eight years.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

PENAL CODE, 1860: c s. 300, Exception 4 and s. 304(Part-I) - Scuffle between accused and Head Constable of police in order to release the dinghy from the police -· Accused causing head injury to Head Constable and pushing him into the sea - Dead body of victim recovered from the sea - Held: Pushing a person 0 into the sea with ableeding head injury may not have been with the intention to kill, but it would certainly show the "intention of causing a bodily injury as was likely to cause death''. within the meaning of s. 300 and secondly s. 304(Part­ I) - The act of the accused is more

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