Supreme Court of India

Gudda @ Dwarikendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [2013] 11 S.C.R. 293

Bench H.L. Dattu, Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and M.Y. Eqbal JJ.

Decided 30 September 2013

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we set aside the judgment and order passed by the High Court and commute the death sentence imposed on the appellant into life sentence.

Judgment, page 21

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Murder - Three victims - 'S', and his wife and minor son - Accused-appellant allegedly assaulted the deceased persons with a knife after having invited them at his house for lunch - Motive-of appellant in brutally assaulting 'S' with a knife allegedly stemmed from his abhorrence for his wife's relationship with 'S' - Conviction of appellant u/s.302 /PC - Justification - He.Id: Justified - Evidence of the two eye-witnesses, PW-5 and PW-7, found credible and trustworthy - Defense version that the incident occurred when 'S' attempted to rape the wife of appellant and

Authorities it was built on

2008 Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra v. State of Karnataka cited by 55
2009 Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 54
2012 Ramnaresh & Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh cited by 21
1998 Panchhi and Ors. Etc. v. State of U.P. cited by 20
2011 Haresh Mohandas Rajput v. State of Maharashtra cited by 19
1977 Dagdu & Others Etc. v. State of Maharashtra cited by 15
2011 State of Maharashtra v. Goraksha Ambaji Adsul cited by 11
1980 Bachan Singh Etc. Etc. v. State of Punjab Etc. Etc. cited by 9
2009 Mohd. Farooq Abdul Gafur and Another v. State of Maharashtra cited by 8
2008 Aqeel Ahmad v. State of U.P. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2025 Jai Prakash v. State of Uttarakhand relied on
2022 Pappu v. The State of Uttar Pradesh referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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