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"(a) A, accused of murder, alleges that, by reason of unsoundness of mind, he did not know the nature of the act.
The burden of proof is on A."
14. The question whether the appellant has proved the existence of circumstances bringing his case within the purview of Section 84 will have to be examined from the totality of circumstances. The unsoundness of mind as a result whereof one is incapable of knowing consequences is a state of mind of a person which, ordinarily can be inferred from the circumstances. If, however, an act is committed out of extreme anger and not as a result of unsoundness of mind, the accused would not be entitled to the benefit of exception as contained in Section 84 IPC. In fact, that is the contention of the learned counsel for the State. It was contended that the prosecution evidence has established that the appellant by nature was an angry http://www.judis.nic.in person and under the fit of extreme anger, he committed the murder of his wife as there was fight between them that morning and there is nothing to show that at the relevant time the appellant was under an attack of paranoid schizophrenia.
16. It is also useful to extract the definition of Paranoid Schizophrenia, Paranoia and Paraphrenia given in Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology by Justice K.Kannan in page No.898 hereunder:
“Paranoia is now regarded as a mild form of paranoid schizophrenia. It occurs more in males than females. The main characteristic http://www.judis.nic.in of his illness is a well-elaborated delusional system in a personality that is otherwise well preserved. The delusions are of a persecutory type. The true nature of the illness may go unrecognised for a long time because the personality is well preserved, and some of these paranoiacs may pass off as social reformers or founders of queer pseudoreligious sects. The classical picture is rare and generally takes a chronic course. Paranoid schizophrenia, in the vast majority of case, starts in the fourth decade and develops insidiously.