Part of the Forensic Docket on Legal Desire Forensics — a conviction confirmed through final appeal, kept here as a method-of-crime record.
The facts
Over a long-standing grudge arising from a minor dispute, the accused inflicted fatal axe injuries on the victim in front of an eyewitness.
His conviction was upheld on the strength of the eyewitness account and the seizure of the axe at his instance.
Status: conviction upheld through final appeal.
Why this belongs in the Forensic Docket: A case where the motive was disproportionately small next to the outcome, and where the weapon’s recovery at the accused’s own instance closed the case.
Case details
| Citation | [2011] 3 S.C.R. 471 |
| Case number | Criminal Appeal No. 703/2007 |
| Court | Indian Supreme Court |
| Decided | 2011 |
| Module | MO Archive |
Read the full judgment (PDF), sourced from the Indian Supreme Court Judgments open dataset (AWS Open Data Registry, CC-BY-4.0).
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