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BSF jawan found guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for sudden indiscriminate firing which led to a civilian’s death; Calcutta HC commutes sentence

The General Security Force Court had convicted the BSF jawan for murder and had sentenced him to life imprisonment along with dismissal from service.

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Delhi High Court upheld life term of six murder convicts who shot a man dead in personal enmity

The Delhi HIgh Court opined that eyewitness running away and hiding at the time of firing and then coming for the rescue of the deceased is not unnatural as self-preservation is the first instinct of a human being.