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Supreme Court and High Courts judgments on Murder (Section 302 IPC / 103 BNS)

320 judgments, latest first, from 2015 to 2026. A judgment is listed here when its headnote names this subject: the Supreme Court Reports' own headnote (filed under the provisions below, or naming the subject), or an AI-written headnote that was reviewed and approved. A mention in the full text alone does not count.

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Section 302, Indian Penal Code, 1860 269
Munuwa @ Satish etc. vs The State of Uttar Pradesh
SC · 26 August 2022
[2022] 12 S.C.R. 86 : 2022 INSC 874
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 34, 302, 307 – Murder – On the fateful day, while the victim-principal of the College was sitting with his family physician and private practitioner-PW-6 outside his office of the college campus, th…
Rajbir Singh vs The State of Punjab
SC · 24 August 2022
[2022] 11 S.C.R. 80 : 2022 INSC 858
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Death by poisoning alleged – Circumstantial evidence – As per the prosecution, PW-1-informant’s wife died after consuming the milk brought from the appellant, residing in the neighbourhood and…
Ramabora @ Ramaboraiah & Anr. vs State of Karnataka
SC · 10 August 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 827 : 2022 INSC 809
Penal Code,1860 – ss.143,144,148,147,448,302 and 149 – 22 accused formed unlawful assembly, armed with deadly weapon and trespassed into the house of victim-deceased and committed the murder of victim in furtherance of a…
Dauvaram Nirmalkar vs State of Chhattisgarh
SC · 2 August 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 5 : 2022 INSC 786
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.304 Part I and 302 and Exception 1 to s.300 – Murder – Conviction of appellant by Courts below u/s.302 IPC for murder of his brother – Challenge to – Held: The fact that the appellant and the deceas…
Sanjay Puran Bagde & Anr. vs The State of Maharashtra
SC · 28 July 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 178 : 2022 INSC 766
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 r/w s.34 – Murder – Common intention – On the fateful night at about 3 a.m., the victim and his wife (eye witness) woke up and while the wife was doing preparations for cooking, the husband went…
Prahlad vs State of Madhya Pradesh & Anr.
SC · 27 July 2022
[2022] 16 S.C.R. 82 : 2022 INSC 753
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302,120B and 34 – Arms Act, 1959 – ss.25,27 – Acquittal under – Prosecution case was that victimdeceased had political enmity with three accused (A-1, A-2 and A3) – All three accused hatched a consp…
Ghulam Hassan Beigh vs Mohammad Maqbool Magrey & Ors.
SC · 26 July 2022
[2022] 13 S.C.R. 34 : 2022 INSC 750
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: 226, 227 and 228 – Penal Code, 1860: 147, 302, 323, 354 & 451 – Accused persons formed an unlawful assembly and laid an assault on the appellant and his family members and during the ass…
Mekala Sivaiah vs The State of Andhra Pradesh
SC · 15 July 2022
[2022] 6 S.C.R. 989 : 2022 INSC 727
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 – Murder – On account of previous grudge, accused armed with knife, sprinkled chilli powder into the eyes of the agriculturalist and stabbed him on the chest and abdomen, resulting in grievous in…
Shahaja @ Shahajan Ismail Mohd. Shaikh vs State of Maharashtra
SC · 14 July 2022
[2022] 12 S.C.R. 196 : 2022 INSC 725
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Murder – Evidence – Ocular evidence – Discovery of fact in consequence of an information received from accused – Victim-deceased and appellant were working as labourers – Prosecution case that…
Ajmal vs The State of Kerala
SC · 12 July 2022
[2022] 14 S.C.R. 503 : 2022 INSC 709
Penal Code, 1860: ss.34, 149, 302, 304 Part II– Culpable homicide not amounting to murder – Deceased along with other friends were stopped by ten accused persons – Verbal altercation took place – Deceased was beaten by a…
Hajabhai Rajashibhai Odedara vs State of Gujarat
SC · 11 July 2022
[2022] 6 S.C.R. 971 : 2022 INSC 704
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302, 307, 328 – Murder – Prosecution case that the accused and co-accused with the object of getting married, hatched a conspiracy and killed the mother and the uncle of co-accused by strangulation…
Malti Sahu vs Rahul & Anr.
SC · 11 July 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 440 : 2022 INSC 702
Penal Code, 1860: s. 302 – Murder – Prosecution case that respondent committed murder of brother and sister – Complaint by the mother – Conviction and sentence of the respondent u/s. 302 for committing the murder of the…
Virendra vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 11 July 2022
[2022] 7 S.C.R. 464 : 2022 INSC 678
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 r/w s. 34 – Murder – Prosecution case that victim was allegedly shot dead and killed by the three persons over a pending property dispute – One of them died during the trial – Conviction of othe…
Shishpal @ Shishu vs The State (NCT of Delhi)
SC · 11 July 2022
[2022] 12 S.C.R. 275 : 2022 INSC 670
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 34 – Murder – Victim-deceased and PW4 were standing in the queue before the liquor store – A2 (not before the Supreme Court) attacked the victim by knife while appellants-accused caught hold of…
Manoj Pratap Singh vs The State of Rajasthan
SC · 24 June 2022
[2022] 16 S.C.R. 743 : 2022 INSC 652
Sentence / Sentencing – Death Sentence – Rarest of Rare case – Kidnapping, rape and murder of a seven-and-a-half-year old mentally and physically challenged girl – Case of circumstantial evidence – Trial Court found appe…
Mahendra Singh and Ors. vs State of M.P.
SC · 3 June 2022
[2022] 6 S.C.R. 737 : 2022 INSC 637
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302 r/w s.149, and s.148 – Murder – Conviction of accused-appellants on basis of sole testimony of PW6 – High Court found PW6 to be in the category of a witness who was “neither wholly reliable nor…
Uttam vs The State of Maharashtra
SC · 2 June 2022
[2022] 5 S.C.R. 863 : 2022 INSC 634
Evidence Act, 1872 – Multiple dying declarations – Admissibility, evidentiary value of – Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 – Appellant convicted u/s.302 for having murdered his wife by pouring kerosene on her and setting her on f…
Chandrapal vs State of Chhattisgarh (Earlier M.P.)
SC · 27 May 2022
[2022] 3 S.C.R. 366 : 2022 INSC 629
CHANDRAPAL v. STATE OF CHHATTISGARH (EARLIER M.P.) (Criminal Appeal No. 378 of 2015) MAY 27, 2022 [DR. DHANANJAYA Y CHANDRACHUD AND BELA M. TRIVEDI, JJ.] Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 201/34 – Murder – Prosecution case t…
Sabitri Samantaray vs State of Odisha
SC · 20 May 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 276 : 2022 INSC 608
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 302 and 304(II) – Prosecution case that victim-deceased was strangulated to death by the appellants (husband and wife) along with their daughter in their house and an attempt was made to conceal id…
Manoj & Ors. vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 20 May 2022
[2022] 9 S.C.R. 452 : 2022 INSC 606
Sentence / Sentencing – Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 397 – Triple murder, in course of robbery – Three accused – Trial Court convicted the accused-appellants u/s. 302 IPC and imposed death penalty on them – High Court conf…
Meena Devi vs The State of U.P. and Another
SC · 13 May 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 23 : 2022 INSC 568
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s 439 – Bail – Grant/cancellation of – When – Held: Power of the High Court u/s. 439 is wide – Exercise of the said discretionary powers vested in the Court when considering grant of bai…
Veerendra vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 13 May 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 225 : 2022 INSC 565
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 376A, 376 (2)(i), 302 – POCSO Act – s. 6 – Rape and murder of a minor girl – Prosecution case that appellant-accused had raped and throttled to cause death of victim, who was daughter of appellant’…
Ravinder Singh @ Kaku vs State of Punjab
SC · 4 May 2022
[2022] 4 S.C.R. 589 : 2022 INSC 505
Penal Code,1860: ss. 302 r/w 120B and 364 – Murder and kidnapping – Kidnapping and murder of two minor children – Conviction of the main accused and other co-accused including the mother of the children and imposed death…
Mohd. Firoz vs State of Madhya Pradesh
SC · 19 April 2022
[2022] 19 S.C.R. 168 : 2022 INSC 429
Penal Code, 1860 – Ss. 302, 376(2)(i), 376(2)(m), 363, 366, 376A – Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO) – ss. 5 (i), 5 (m), 6 – Evidence Act, 1872 – s. 106 – Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – ss…
The State of Uttar Pradesh vs Subhash @ Pappu
SC · 1 April 2022
[2022] 5 S.C.R. 832 : 2022 INSC 382
Penal Code, 1860: ss.146, 148, 149,302, 304 – Prosecution case was that six (out of which three persons were unknown) persons came to a shop and attacked the servant (deceased) of the shop with knife and hockey for refus…
Puran Mal vs State of Haryana & Anr.
SC · 10 March 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 859 : 2022 INSC 297
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s.439 – Bail – Respondent no.2 was accused of offence u/s.302, IPC – Bail denied by Trial Court – Granted by High Court – On appeal by complainant, held: When the Trial Court has dismis…
State of M.P. vs Ramji Lal Sharma & Anr.
SC · 9 March 2022
[2022] 1 S.C.R. 754 : 2022 INSC 285
Penal Code, 1860 – s.302 r/w s.34 – Murder – Common Intention – Trial Court held that all the four accused shared the common intention to kill the deceased, and convicted them u/s.302 r/w s.34 – High Court allowed appeal…
Karan Singh vs The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.
SC · 2 March 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 473 : 2022 INSC 253
Penal Code, 1860: s.302 r/w s.149; s.307 r/w s.149 and s.148 – Conviction of appellant along with other accused by trial court as well as by High Court under the aforesaid sections – Prosecution case was that there was d…
Krishnamurthy @ Gunodu and Others vs State of Karnataka
SC · 16 February 2022
[2022] 2 S.C.R. 433 : 2022 INSC 190
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302 and 34 – Murder – Common intention – Three accused – Conviction of appellants-accused (K, T, G) for murder of victim-deceased u/s. 302 r/w s.34 and for offences u/ss.447, 504, 506, 341 – Divisio…
Satye Singh & Another vs State of Uttarakhand
SC · 15 February 2022
[2022] 1 S.C.R. 1137 : 2022 INSC 185
Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 34 and 201 – Homicidal death – Circumstantial evidence – Dead body of married woman found in burnt condition in the Chhan (hut) of her husband – Father of the deceased gave written complaint im…

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