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Supreme Court judgments on Section 4, Indian Penal Code, 1860

6 judgments, latest first, from 2018 to 2025. Listed when the Supreme Court Reports file the judgment's headnote under Section 4 of this Act, as printed at the start of the headnote. Judgments that only mention it in passing are not listed.

Ashok Saxena vs The State of Uttarakhand Etc.
SC · 30 January 2025
[2025] 1 S.C.R. 1454 : 2025 INSC 148
Whether the High Court committed any error in holding the appellant guilty of the offence of murder.
No.15138812y L/Nk Gursewak Singh vs Union of India & Anr.
SC · 27 July 2023
[2023] 10 S.C.R. 1139 : 2023 INSC 648
Penal Code, 1860: s. 304 Part I, s 300 exception 4 – Punishment for culpable homicide not amounting to murder – Appellant and the victim, both Lance Naik in the Indian Army – Altercation between them on the issue of seni…
Velladurai vs State Represented by the Inspector of Police
SC · 14 September 2021
[2021] 6 S.C.R. 187 : 2021 INSC 477
Penal Code, 1860 – s.306 r/w s.4(b) of Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Harassment of Women Act – Abetment to suicide – Mere harassment without any positive action on part of the accused proximate to the time of occurrence whic…
Suraj Jagannath Jadhav vs The State of Maharashtra
SC · 13 December 2019
[2019] 15 S.C.R. 84 : 2019 INSC 1368
Penal Code, 1860 – s.300 Fourthly & Exception 4 to s.300; ss. 302 & 304 Part II – Appellant-accused killed his wife by setting her ablaze – Convicted u/s.302 – Issue limited as to alteration of conviction from s.302 to s…
Rambir vs State of NCT, Delhi
SC · 6 May 2019
[2019] 7 S.C.R. 163 : 2019 INSC 626
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 300 exception 4, 302 – Murder – Husband-appellant strangulated his wife with saria and caused her death – Testimony of the eye witness-son of the victim, oral evidence of prosecution witness whose s…
Gurwinder Singh @ Sonu etc. vs State of Punjab and Anr.
SC · 8 May 2018
[2018] 4 S.C.R. 362 : 2018 INSC 457
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 304 Part I, 300 Exception 4, 302 r/w 34 – Murder – Parties assembled to settle land dispute – Exchange of words resulting in scuffle between the parties – Appellant G brought axe from the room – Ap…

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