wife’s murder Archives

Husband who called police himself after killing pregnant wife gets life sentence commuted to 7 years: MP HC holds verbal taunt amounted to grave and sudden provocation

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.

Credibility of Extra-judicial confession

Case Briefs Supreme Court

‘Extra-judicial confession lacked credibility and evidence suffered from material contradiction’; SC acquits murder convict even after strong suspicion

“The circumstances taken cumulatively must be so complete that there is no escape from the conclusion that, within all human probability, the crime was committed by the accused and none else. While there is no doubt that conviction can be based solely on circumstantial evidence, great care must be taken in evaluating circumstantial evidence.”