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Rambir vs State Of Nct Delhi on 6 May, 2019

(19) Reverting to the facts of the present case in light of above principles of law laid down by their Lordships of the Supreme Court, it is quite vivid that there was no premeditation on the part of the appellant to cause death of the deceased, but only on account petty dispute that though the appellant had promised the deceased (his wife) that he will not drink, but on the fateful day the appellant came to the house under the influence of liquor vis-a-vis in breach of his promise and asked deceased to serve him food, upon which, deceased refused to serve him food, followed by sudden quarrel and under heat of passion and under the influence of liquor, the appellant, who is husband of deceased, assaulted her by means of iron rod, 'tava' and cooker, due to which she suffered grievous head injuries and succumbed to death, which fact has been duly established by statements of eye-witnesses, namely, Raunak Khurana (PW-08) and Ku. Ritika Khurana (PW-09), who are children of the appellant and the deceased and have clearly seen the incident. As such, there was no premeditation on the part of the appellant to cause death of the deceased and only because of CRA-296-2014 Page 13 of 14 sudden quarrel, under anger and influence of liquor and in heat of passion, the appellant assaulted deceased and caused his death. However, looking to the head injuries sustained by deceased, the appellant must have had knowledge that such injuries inflicted by him on the body of the deceased would likely to cause her death, as such, this is a case which would fall within the purview of Exception 4 to Section 300 of IPC, as the act of the appellant herein completely satisfies the four necessary ingredients of Exception 4 to Section 300 IPC i.e. (i) there must be a sudden fight; (ii) there was no premeditation;
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