Section 302 IPC

The Allahabad High Court...

Allahabad High Court while hearing a Criminal Appeal and Government Appeal observed that in acquittal appeals, the appellate court is not required to rewrite the judgment or to give fresh reasoning when the reasons assigned by the Court below are found to be just and proper.

Allahabad High Court division bench while hearing a petition filed by Ram Pratap @ Tillu quashed the death sentence awarded to a convict in the brutal murder of six family members and observed that the prosecution has failed to prove the crime beyond doubt.

Allahabad High Court division bench while hearing a Criminal Appeal directed the release on bail of Mahoba's Kallu @ Jai Kumar, who spent 15 years in jail for the offense of the murder.

The Allahabad High Court...

Supreme Court division bench noted at this stage that during the course of the investigation, the statements of the persons hardly any witness has supported the commission of a crime which, as per her complaint, is alleged to have been committed at the police station itself.

Ground of being juvenile at time of crime which took place 17 years back, Supreme Court divisional bench releases a curlprit

The father-in-law of a d...

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. 

The Supreme Court has di...