Supreme Court of India

Dahyabhai Chhaganbhai Thakker v. State of Gujarat

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Bench K. Subba Rao, K.C. Das Gupta and Raghubar Dayal JJ.
Decided 19 March 1964

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8 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We, therefore, though for different reasons, agree with the conclusion arrived at by the High Court and dismiss the appeal.

Judgment, p. 375

In brief

The appellant married Kalavati in 1958 and on the night of 9 April 1959 the couple slept in their bedroom with the doors bolted from inside; at about 3-3.30 a.m. she cried out that she was being killed, and when the door was opened after the village Mukhi arrived, she was found dead with 44 knife injuries and the appellant emerged with a blood-stained knife. About twenty days earlier he had written to his father-in-law to take his wife away because he did not like her, and the father-in-law had promised to fetch her by Chaitra Sudi 1 — the murder occurred on the night before that date.…

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to · 4 mentioned

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