Supreme Court of India

Anil Kumar v. The State of Kerala

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Reported as [2023] 14 S.C.R. 173
Bench Abhay S. Oka and Pankaj Mithal JJ.
Decided 1 November 2023

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above legal position, the ruling cited above, viz.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Issue for consideration: Whether in the circumstances of the instant case, the appellant had any premeditated mind to kill the deceased or was it due to grave and sudden provocation which would not amount to murder or would at best be a case of culpable homicide not amounting to mur der punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend up to 10 years or with fi ne or with both u/s. 304 Part-II of IPC. Penal Code, 1860 – s. 302 and s. 304 Part-II – Prosecution case that the appellant, with the intention to kill his wife, lighted a matchstick and threw it upon her when she had already

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