Section 302 IPC

The Supreme Court has reiterated that common intention contemplated by Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code pre-supposes prior concert, it requires meeting of minds, and a pre-arranged plan before a man can be vicariously convicted for the criminal act of another while acquitting a man convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment under section 302 read with 34 of the IPC. 

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The Allahabad High Court has rejected the appeal filed in the case of the death of a woman under the Binoli police station of Baghpat. The Division Bench of Justice Suneet Kumar and Justice Brij Raj Singh passed this order while hearing a Government Appeal filed by the State of UP.

The Allahabad High Court has allowed the conditional bail application of an accused charged with murder. A single-judge bench of Justice Samit Gopal passed this order while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Shahid.

The Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court has taken a tough stand on the release of four convicts who had been awarded capital punishment under Section 302 IPC by the trial court on parole thrice during the Covid outbreak.

The Supreme Court has held that the sentence of life imprisonment has to be equated to rigorous imprisonment for life in a plea challenging the order of the Gauhati High Court, whose conviction and sentence was upheld, and the SLP dismissed.

The Supreme Court has set aside the conviction and sentence of life imprisonment of three people, noting that investigation was faulty and not carried out with the intention of unearthing the truth, but for burying the same fathom deep, for extraneous considerations, while allowing the real culprits named in the FIR to escape.

The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by a man convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment under Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code

As per the case of the prosecution, there was a sudden quarrel with respect to money and the accused pushed the deceased and stood on the abdomen in the heat of passion upon a sudden quarrel.