The Supreme Court observed that a Sessions Court has a duty to undertake an exercise and to satisfy itself whether a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder is made out or not, before proceeding with the trial of an accused for murder. It is trite that a duty is enjoined upon the Court of Sessions to undertake an …
While upholding the life sentence of a truck cleaner who killed a man in Mumbai in 2011, the Bombay High Court rejected his plea seeking reduction of the offence from Section 302 to Section 304 Part-II of the Indian Penal Code. The bench said that if the murder was not in the heat of passion, but much after an argument …
