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    15/03/2020 Delivery | Westlaw India

    Westlaw India Delivery Summary

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    Request made on: Sunday, 15 March, 2020 at 14:19 IST
       
    Client ID: inapu-1
    Content Type: Legislation
    Title : A. Steepen v State, Represented by Inspector of
    Police, Chennai
    Delivery selection: Current Document
    Number of documents delivered: 1

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    A. Steepen v State, Represented by Inspector of Police, Chennai

    Madras High Court

    16 March 2016

    Case Analysis

    Bench S. NAGAMUTHU, Jaichandren

    Where Reported 2016 Indlaw MAD 3704; 2017 ACJ 672; 2016 (2) MLJ(Crl) 513

    Case Digest Subject: Criminal

    Keywords: Presumption, Forensic, Suicide, Indian Evidence Act,


    1872, Tamil Nadu, Treatment, Reasonable Doubt, Doctor, Dead
    Body, Prosecutor, Public Prosecutor, Handwriting, Indian Penal
    Code, 1860, Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, Plea

    Summary: Criminal - Indian Penal Code, 1860, ss. 302, 309, 84,
    299 - Conviction - Challenged - Trial Court convicted Accused and
    sentenced for offence u/ss.302, 309 of IPC - Hence, instant appeal
    - Whether, conviction order passed against Accused was justified.

    Held, on date of occurrence, Accused came to house of father in


    law of Accused with his son (deceased), entered into room, bolted
    it from inside. Doctor, opined that death of deceased, due to
    poison, cannot be ruled out. As per Forensic expert, there was no
    poison detected in any of internal organs of deceased. Death was
    caused by this Accused by administering some kind of poison,
    though precisely, nature of poison could not be detected. It is not
    every homicide which is made punishable under IPC. It is only
    culpable homicide which is punishable. Culpability as defined u/s.
    299 of IPC is to be established by prosecution. Father in law of
    Accused, stated that from date of accident in which wife of
    Accused was killed, Accused was highly depressed and he was not
    in his normal sense. Doctor has stated that said depression in
    medical terms in known as ‘Major depressive disorder’. Cognitive
    faculty of Accused was not under his control and he was not
    conscious of consequences of his act. Thus, Accused was suffering
    from unsoundness of mind at time of occurrence in terms of s. 84
    of IPC and act of Accused in causing death of his son as well as in
    attempting to commit suicide, would not make out any offence,
    either u/s. 302 of IPC or s. 309 of IPC. Thus, Accused is entitled
    for acquittal. Appeal allowed.

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