High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCRM-M/48517/2023dismissed

Manjit Singh And Others v. State Of Punjab

2024-02-05Mr. Justice Deepak Gupta13 pages

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State through Dy.S.P Vs. R. Soundirarasu etc. 2022 LiveLaw (SC) 741, while discussing the scope of powers of revisional court, Hon'ble Supreme Court held as under:

"75. In Munna Devi v. State of Rajasthan & Anr., (2001) 9 SCC 631, this Court held as under:- "3.....The revision power under the Code of Criminal Procedure cannot be exercised in a routine and casual manner. While exercising such powers the High Court has no authority to appreciate the evidence in the manner as the trial and the appellate courts are required to do. Revisional powers could be exercised only when it is shown that there is a legal bar against the continuance of the criminal proceedings or the framing of charge or the facts as stated in the first information report even if they are taken at the face value and accepted in their entirety do not constitute the offence for which the accused has been charged."

76. Thus, the revisional power cannot be exercised in a casual or mechanical manner. It can only be exercised to correct manifest error of law or procedure which would occasion injustice, if it is not corrected. The revisional power cannot be equated with appellate power. A revisional court cannot undertake meticulous examination of the material on record as it is undertaken by the trial court or the appellate court. This power can only be exercised if there is any legal bar to the continuance of the proceedings or if the facts as stated in the charge-sheet are taken to be true on their face value and accepted in their entirety do not constitute the offence for which the accused has been charged. It is conferred to check grave error of law or procedure.

77. This Court in Asian Resurfacing of Road Agency Pvt. Ltd. v. Central Bureau of Investigation, (2018) 16 SCC 299, has held that interference in the order framing charges or refusing to discharge is called for in the rarest of rare case only to correct the patent error of jurisdiction. ,- 7 " " % 4

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,; In order to see that whether there is an attempt to murder so as to attract section 307 IPC, it is required that the act must be done with such intention or knowledge and done under such circumstances that if death be caused by that act, offence of murder would emerge. Intention or knowledge of accused must be such as is necessary to constitute murder. Since mens rea (intention or knowledge) precedes the act, so said mens rea has to be gathered from all the circumstances. There is no golden scale to judge intention of the accused, same being hidden in his mind. Therefore, it is to be deduced from various circumstances. Certain guiding factors in this regard can be nature of injury, part of body involved, kind of weapon used, number of injuries, time and place of occurrence, preparation made, manner of occurrence, motive and consequence of the injuries. Reference can be made to Ajay Pal vs. State of

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Punjab 1999(1) RCR (Criminal) 437 and State of Haryana Vs. Babu Singh 1987(1) RCR (Criminal) 117.

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In fact, it is not even essential that bodily injury capable of causing death must be inflicted, so as to sustain conviction under section 307 IPC. For example, if a shot is fired with an intention to kill the victim but it misses the target, conviction u/s 307 IPC would be justified, even though no bodily injury capable of causing death is inflicted. Reference can be made to Om Parkash vs. State of Punjab, AIR 1961 SC 1782. It is sufficient in law, if there is present an intent coupled with some overt act in execution thereof, such act being proximate to the crime intended. Reference can be made to Sagayam Vs. State of Karnataka 2000 (4) SCC 454 [SC]. In State of Madhya Pradesh Vs.

Saleem alias Chamaru (2005) 5 SCC 554, it has been held by Hon'ble Supreme Court that an accused charged under section 307 IPC cannot be acquitted merely because the injuries inflicted on the victim were in the nature of a simple hurt. It was observed that bodily injury may not be sufficient to cause death. Accused may be convicted under section 307 IPC if he had intention to cause death. The determinative question is intention or knowledge, as the case may be, and not nature of the injury. Intention or knowledge is the question of fact and would depend on facts of a given case. Same view was taken by Hon'ble Supreme Court in Vasant Vithu Yadav v State 2004 (9) SCC 31.

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