murder of wife

2026 SCC Vol 8
Cases ReportedSCC Weekly

Eight Supreme Court rulings on prisons, environmental clearance, operational creditors, police custody, POCSO, POSH and more. This volume of the Supreme Court Cases (SCC), Part 1 of Volume 8, carries key cases decided by the Supreme Court on issues such as constitutional distribution of powers, prior environment clearance, enforcement of claims by operational creditors, grant of police custody, and more.

Pregnant wife murder on provocation
Case BriefsHigh Courts

The Court found that the wife’s statement that she could keep a thousand husbands like him constituted grave and sudden provocation within Exception 1 to Section 300 IPC, and that the fatal injuries were consistent with a single blow rather than repeated pelting, bringing the case within Section 304 Part II rather than Part I.

2025 SCC Vol. 8 Part 4
Cases ReportedSCC Weekly

2025 SCC Vol. 8 Part 4: Explore the latest Supreme Court Cases on Criminal Law and Consumer Protection.