Supreme Court of India · 2014-09-02
Kusha Laxman Waghmare vs State Of Maharashtra
- Citation / case number
- AIR 2014 SUPREME COURT 3839
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Petitioner
- Kusha Laxman Waghmare
- Respondent
- State Of Maharashtra
- Author
- M. Y. Eqbal
- Bench
- Pinaki Chandra Ghose, M. Y. Eqbal
Judgment text excerpt
The Supreme Court held that the conviction under Section 302 IPC for murder was not sustainable due to lack of evidence proving the intention to kill. The Court found that the appellant's actions constituted culpable homicide not amounting to murder, warranting a conviction under Section 304 Part-II IPC instead. Consequently, the appeal was partly allowed, altering the conviction and reducing the sentence accordingly.