HC commutes life imprisonment to seven years in murder case

The Madhya Pradesh High Court today commuted to seven years jail term the life imprisonment awarded to a man for the murder of a ten-year-old boy, holding that it was a culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
A division bench of Justices S C Sharma and Vedprakash Sharma of the court's Indore Bench commuted the life sentence to Mahesh Tadvi (25) by the Khargone district court in 2013 to a seven years jail term.
The lower court had sentenced Tadvi on June 28, 2013 after convicting him for murder.
He was charged with killing Dipak by hitting him on the head with a stone at Nagkatti in Khargone district on May 1, 2012. The provocation, according to the police, was that Dipak and his mother came to Tadvi's sister's wedding without invitation.

The HC, hearing Tadvi's appeal, observed that he committed the act in a fit of rage and not with the intention to kill, hence it could not be termed as murder.