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Documents citing Vinod Kumar vs Amritpal @ Chhotu on 30 November, 2021

Kunhimuhammed @ Kunheethu vs The State Of Kerala on 6 December, 2024

“13. Once these four elements are established by the prosecution (and, of course, the burden is on the prosecution throughout) the offence is murder under S. 300, “Thirdly. It does not matter that there was no intention to cause death. It does not matter that there was no intention even to cause an injury of a kind that is sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature (not that there is any real distinction between the two). It does not SLP (CRL.) NO. 4403 OF 2023 Page 29 of 46 even matter that there is no knowledge that an act of that kind will be likely to cause death. Once the intention to cause the bodily injury actually found to be present is proved, the rest of the enquiry is purely objective and the only question is whether, as a matter of purely objective inference, the injury is sufficient in the ordinary course of nature to cause death. No one has a licence to run around inflicting injuries that are sufficient to cause death in the ordinary course of nature and claim that they are not guilty of murder. If they inflict injuries of that kind, they must face the consequences; and they can only escape if it can be shown, or reasonably deduced that the injury was accidental or otherwise unintentional.” 25.13 This position has further been upheld by this Court recently in the case of Vinod Kumar vs. Amritpal7, wherein the bench observed that:
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