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Does a single stab in a sudden election fight constitute murder?
Mehmood Khan vs The State of Madhya Pradesh
The Supreme Court reduced Mehmood Khan's murder conviction to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, sentencing him to the period already undergone, as the stabbing occurred in a sudden unpremeditated free fight without intention to cause death.
Can a murder conviction stand on unreliable eyewitnesses and incomplete circumstantial evidence?
KARTIKA @ KIRTAN @ KIRTAN CHARAN JENA & ANR. ETC. VERSUS THE STATE OF ODISHA WITH CRIMINAL APPEAL NO (s). 2223 OF 2010
The Supreme Court acquitted the appellants of murder, holding that unreliable eyewitness accounts and an incomplete chain of circumstantial evidence could not sustain conviction beyond reasonable doubt.
Can helpers escape a murder conviction if they did not fire the fatal shot?
Santosh Singh v. The State of Madhya Pradesh and Ors.
The Supreme Court ruled that individuals who actively assist a killer by holding the victim or urging them to shoot share the common intention and must be convicted of murder.
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