Attempt to Murder Archives

Gau HC | Sexual offences against minor cannot be compromised by parents; HC rejects application to enforce compromise

Gauhati High Court: Arun Dev Choudhury, J., held that sexual offences against minor cannot be compromised by parents. An FIR was lodged

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Explained| Is ‘motive’ an indispensable ingredient for proving the charge of attempt to murder?

“Unearthing ‘motive’ is akin to an exercise of manual brain-mapping. At times, it becomes herculean task to ascertain the traces of a ‘motive’.”

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Cardinal principle of sentencing policy is that sentence imposed should reflect crime committed in consonance with the gravity of offence

Bombay High Court: A Division Bench of S.S. Shinde and M.S. Karnik, JJ., partly allowed an appeal by reducing the sentence of the

Case Briefs High Courts

Raj HC | Court grants bail in view of prolonged period of imprisonment

Rajasthan High Court: P.K. Lohra, J. granted bail and suspended the sentences of the applicant passed by the District Judge. In the

Case Briefs High Courts

Del HC | Necessary to prove ingredients of murder short of death in prosecution for attempt to murder under S. 307 IPC; conviction modified to S. 324 for failure thereof

Delhi High Court: A.K. Chawla, J. disposed of a criminal appeal by modifying the conviction of the appellant under Section 307 (attempt to murder) of

Case Briefs High Courts

Bom HC | Act of putting revolver to Police personnel’s head not an attempt to murder under S. 307 IPC

Bombay High Court: K.K. Sonawane, J., acquitted the appellant who was convicted by the trial court for offences punishable under Sections 307 (attempt