Legal Street registered trademark

Supreme Court of India

R. Jayapal v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr.

Neutral citation
Reported as [2019] 10 S.C.R. 1
Bench Abhay Manohar Sapre and Dinesh Maheshw Ari JJ.
Decided 9 August 2019

INSC stands for INDIAN SUPREME COURT. A neutral citation scheme assigned by the Court itself, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter. INSC is the neutral citation scheme assigned by the Supreme Court, so a judgment can be cited without depending on a commercial law reporter.

What the Court ordered

In view of the above, this appeal is partly allowed to the extent and in the manner that conviction of the appellant 23 under Section 302 IPC is altered to the one under Part-I of Section 304 IPC and the appellant is sentenced to undergo imprisonment for a period of ten years.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – s.302/34, Part-I of s.304 – Alteration of conviction from s.302 IPC to Part-I of s.304 – Pros ecution case that there was long-drawn rivalry between the wife of appellant (accused no.3) and the victim-deceased – It was all eged that appellant (accused no.1) and his wife (accused no.3 ) had an altercation with the victim – Same day, in the evening, it was alleged that when victim was crossing the lane in front of the hous e of the appellant, the appellant came down with a spike, the acc used no.2 with sickle and unarmed accused no.3 and attacked t he victim – Appellant

Authorities it was built on

Sign in free to read it

  • The full judgment, page by page, as published in the Supreme Court Reports
  • The ratio: what the Court held, verbatim, with the page it sits on
  • Every bench that relied on it, and every bench that argued against it
  • Search every reported judgment, by party, citation or question
  • Download the PDF, copy pinpoint citations ready for a filing
Sign in to read - for free

An email address, no password.