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Supreme Court: Death Due to 'Grave & Sudden Provocation' Doesn't Amount to 'Cruel Act of Murder'(12.04.2017)

Supreme Court, while reducing life term of a man to 10-year-jail term in a homicidal case, has said that death due to "grave and sudden provocation" c.....

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Bom. HC: Judicial Process Not Tool to Harass Celebrities(13.04.2023)

Bombay High Court while observing that judicial process is not a tool to harass celebrity to satisfy vendetta of complainant, has held that words utte.....

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Kerala High Court: Long Lasting Provocation Can’t be Construed as Sudden Provocation(08.07.2024)

Kerala High Court while disallowing a discharge application of an accused, has observed that long lasting provocation, either mild or grave, could not.....

Tags : Kerala High Court, Sudden Provocation, Long Lasting Provocation

Delhi HC Reduces Sentence Imposed on Man Who Killed Five(16.04.2018)

Delhi High Court has reduced the sentence imposed upon an Indian Reserve Battalion Constable who had shot dead five of his colleagues for trying to so.....

Tags : Delhi High Court, Indian Reserve Battalion Constable, sudden provocation

Voluntary Provocation can't Attract Exception to Offence of Murder: SC(12.02.2019)

Supreme Court has observed that if provocation was voluntary on part of the accused, it would not attract exception 1 to Section 300 of Indian Penal C.....

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Bombay HC Grants Bail to 3 Accused of Murdering Muslim Man, Terms It a Case of Religious Provocation(17.01.2017)

Bombay High Court while granting bail to three men accused of attacking and murdering a Muslim man after attending a Hindu Rashtra Sena (HRS) meeting .....

Tags : Bombay High Court, Religious Provocation, Murder, Muslim

Karnataka HC: Refusal of Marriage Proposal Cannot Be 'Grave And Sudden Provocation' for Murder(24.11.2020)

Karnataka High Court has rejected the defence of 'grave and sudden provocation' taken by a jilted lover who murdered a girl on her refusal to accept h.....

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Deceased Termed Wife and Daughter Prostitutes: SC Finds It Sufficient 'Grave And Sudden Provocation'(25.01.2019)

Supreme Court has modified the conviction of a woman accused of murdering her husband to 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' on the ground tha.....

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