Supreme Court of India

Awadhesh Kumar v. State of U.P. & Anr.

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Reported as [2019] 17 S.C.R. 185
Bench Arun Mishra, M. R. Shah and S. Ravindra Bhat JJ.
Decided 8 November 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above and for the reasons stated above, t he present appeal succeeds.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s.304 Part I – Appeal by complain ant challenging the impugned order whereby High Court partly a llowed the appeal of original accused no.1-respondent no.2 and converte d his conviction from s.302 to s.304 Part I – Prosecuti on case was that on the fateful day, complainant’s mother made grievance to respondent no.2 regarding the bad behaviour of his nephew- accused no.2 – At that time, accused no.3 and 4 were also prese nt there – All the accused persons started fighting wit h her – When the accused were asked to go away from there, accuse d no.2 to 4 exhorted respondent

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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