According to Exception I to Section 300 IPC, culpable homicide is not murder if the offender causes the death of the person who gave the provocation, whilst deprived of the power of self-control by grave and sudden provocation. However, the First Proviso to Exception I provides that the provocation should be one which is not sought or voluntarily provoked by the offender as an excuse for killing or doing harm to any person.

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Private Defence--A right to private defence does not include a right to launch an offence particularly when the need of defence no longer survives. Private Defence--Burden is on accused to show that he had a right to private defence which extended to cause death.

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Accident--Permanent disability--Certificate of Govt. Hospital, should not have disbelieved on the supposition that doctor had been issuing certificates fixing 'permanent disability which was not proportionate to the injury'.

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FIR--It is not compulsory to mention the name of accused in FIR.

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Murder motivated by illicit relationship does not fall in rarest of rare category.

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Seniority--Principle of "continuous length of service" i.e. date of appointment should be applied for determining the inter se seniority of the officers of Delhi Higher Judicial Service.

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Evidence Law--Confession--Extra Judicial Confession--Conviction made on basis of extra judicial confession--Held; While dealing with a stand of extra judicial confession, Court has to satisfy itself that the same was voluntary and without any coercion and undue influence--Extra judicial confession can form the basis of conviction if persons before whom it is stated to be made appear to be unbiased and not even remotely inimical to the accused

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Acquittal--A judgment of acquittal passed should not be interfered with when two views are possible. Benefit of doubt--When trial Court finds so many infirmities in the prosecution version then trial Court left with no choice but to give benefit of doubt to accused--Acquittal by trial Court should not be interfered with unless it is totally perverse or wholly unsustainable.

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Lok Adalat--No party can be punished for failure to reach a settlement before Lok Adalat. Adjournment--When a counsel who is ready in the pre-lunch session, seeks accommodation in the post lunch session on ground of a sudden illness or physical ailment, Court cannot refuse a short accommodation.

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Jurisdiction--Territorial jurisdiction of a court with regard to criminal offence would be decided on the basis of place of occurrence of the incident and not on the basis of where the complaint was filed.

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