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Supreme Court<\/strong>: The 3-judge bench of Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and MR Shah, JJ has held that there is no hard and fast rule that in a case of single injury Section 302 IPC would not be attracted and that the same depends upon the facts and circumstances of each case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nature of injury, the part of the body where it is caused, the weapon used in causing such injury are the indicators of the fact whether the accused caused the death of the deceased with an intention of causing death or not.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the case before the Court, it was argued that s it is a case of a single blow, Section 302 IPC shall not be attracted. Rejecting the contention, the Court said that it cannot be laid down as a rule of universal application that whenever the death occurs on account of a single blow, Section 302 IPC is ruled out. The fact situation has to be considered in each case, the events which precede will also have a bearing on the issue whether the act by which the death was caused was done with an intention of causing death or knowledge that it is likely to cause death, but without intention to cause death. It is the totality of the circumstances which will decide the nature of offence.<\/p>\n

It was further argued that the motive alleged for the incident is prior to four months of the incident in question and, therefore, as such, the prosecution has failed to establish and prove the motive for the accused to kill the deceased.<\/p>\n

The Court rejected this contention as well and said that<\/p>\n

“motive is not an explicit requirement under the Penal Code, though \u201cmotive\u201d may be helpful in proving the case of the prosecution in a case of circumstantial evidence.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Considering that in the case at hand there were three eye\u00adwitnesses to the incident and the prosecution has been successful in proving the case against the accused by examining those three eye\u00adwitnesses and therefore, as rightly observed by the High Court, assuming that the alleged motive is the incident which had taken place prior to four months or the prosecution has failed to prove the motive beyond doubt, the same shall not be fatal to the case of prosecution.<\/p>\n

Considering the totality of the facts and circumstances of the case and more particularly that the accused inflicted the blow with a weapon like knife and he inflicted the injury on the deceased on the vital part of the body, the Court held that it is to be presumed that causing such bodily injury was likely to cause the death.\u00a0 Therefore, the case would fall under Section 304 Part I of the IPC and not under Section 304 Part II of the IPC.<\/p>\n

[Stalin v. State, 2020 SCC OnLine SC 723<\/b><\/a>, decided on 09.09.2020]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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