Supreme Court Partly Allows Appeal in Murder Case, Converting Conviction to Culpable Homicide Not Amounting to Murder Due to Right to Private Defence. The appellant's conviction under Section 302 IPC was set aside and converted to Section 304 Part I IPC as he acted in self-defence against an armed aggressor party at his house, with sentence limited to period already undergone of about five years.
19 Jan 2023The appeal arose from a murder conviction where the appellant, along with five others, was initially convicted under Section 302 read with Section 149...
