In Brief
A man was convicted of murdering his wife after assaulting her with a brick during a drunken quarrel. The trial court sentenced him to death under Section 302 IPC (murder). The High Court set aside the murder conviction and convicted him instead under Section 304 Part I IPC (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), sentencing him to ten years imprisonment. The Supreme Court dismissed his appeal, affirming the High Court's view that the act was unpremeditated and occurred in the heat of a drunken quarrel, making it culpable homicide rather than murder, requiring no interference with the conviction and sentence."
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