In Brief
Vijender was convicted along with a co-accused for murdering his sister Anita during a domestic dispute. The co-accused used a knife to inflict fatal injuries; Vijender attacked her with a wooden plank (thapki). Medical evidence showed the knife wounds were individually capable of causing death. The Supreme Court found no evidence of Vijender's intent to kill—he went unarmed, picked up a handy wooden plank, and the eye-witness did not testify to any expressed intention to kill. The Court converted his conviction from murder (Section 302) to culpable homicide not amounting to murder (Section 304 Part II), finding he caused death with knowledge of its likelihood but without intent. His sentence remained ten years imprisonment, which he had already served."
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