{"id":7530,"date":"2026-03-17T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T03:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/spit-fights-killing-hc-slashes-life-sentence-in-shocking-family-case\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T17:39:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:09:40","slug":"spit-fights-killing-hc-slashes-life-sentence-in-shocking-family-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawfultalks3.selfst.art\/spit-fights-killing-hc-slashes-life-sentence-in-shocking-family-case\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSpit, Fights, Killing: HC Slashes Life Sentence In Shocking Family Case\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The Bombay High Court recently reduced a man&#39;s life sentence to 10 years in prison. The man had killed his own brother. However, the court said the case would be treated as <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>culpable homicide not amounting to murder<\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">, not murder.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:center\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\">The court noted that the brother had habits like smoking tobacco and consuming gutka. He would often fight and even assault the man and their elderly mother whenever they tried to stop him from these habits.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Background of the case: <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt; text-align:justify\">Hemant Devrukhkar (40), who killed his brother Sainath by smashing his head and face with a large cement block, was held guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt; text-align:justify\">The judgment was given by a bench of Justices Ajay Gadkari and Shyam Chandak.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt; text-align:justify\">The incident happened when Sainath attacked Hemant, who was suffering from jaundice at that time. Their mother (prosecution witness no. 1) and Hemant were unhappy with Sainath&rsquo;s addiction. Whenever they tried to advise or help him, Sainath would behave arrogantly and abuse their mother. Sometimes, he even assaulted her when she scolded him for his addiction. Even after many efforts by Hemant, Sainath did not change his behaviour.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><strong>Court Findings<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n \n <span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">The judges said in their order.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><em>&quot;We hold that the prosecution has established that Sainath was addicted to tobacco and gutkha; although he was given an understanding by the mother and the Appellant, he was not improving. On that count, there used to be quarrels between Sainath and the Appellant. In the previous night Sainath had consumed tobacco and he was spitting inside the room making an irritating noise. At that time, the Appellant was unwell and he had told Sainath to give up that addition. On that count a quarrel had occurred between the brothers and during that dispute, Sainath had assaulted the Appellant. Therefore, the Appellant had assaulted Sainath on the head by means of the paver block and caused him the fatal injuries leading to his death and immediately, he went away,&quot; <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">The bench rejected Hemant&rsquo;s claim that his mother&rsquo;s testimony cannot be trusted just because she turned hostile in the trial court.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">The judges agreed with Additional Public Prosecutor Ashish Satpute that even if a witness turns hostile, the parts of their statement that support the prosecution can still be used. It does not mean the entire testimony must be rejected.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">The judges also said there was no reason for the mother to file a false case against her own son.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><strong>Legal Reasoning:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">They held that the case comes under <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><strong>Explanation 1 of Section 300<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">, which means that if a person is continuously troubled, he may lose self-control at some point and commit an offence.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">After applying the mother&rsquo;s testimony to the facts, the judges said that Sainath&rsquo;s actions were <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><strong>&ldquo;unbearable.&rdquo;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">The bench <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><strong>altered<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"> Hemant&rsquo;s conviction from Section 302 (murder) to Section 304 (Part I) of the IPC.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><strong>Court&rsquo;s Observations:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">The judges said:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">&quot;The mother and the Appellant were fed up due to his vices. This was quite natural because Sainath used to beat them even though they used to persuade him to give up his addictions and improve. Sainath further created hardship by spitting tobacco inside the room and keeping it unhygienic. The family had poor financial background. At the time of the last quarrel, Sainath had assaulted the Appellant, though he was unwell, had not eaten and not at fault. On the contrary, he wanted Sainath to give up his additions and improve. In this background, we are of the view that the cumulative and continued abusive behaviour of Sainath towards the Appellant and their mother over a period of time coupled with the provocative assault to the Appellant by Sainath during their last quarrel resulted in continuing the stress by provocation, which ultimately led to the unfortunate homicidal death of Sainath. Therefore, the present case is covered with Exception 1 of Section 300 of IPC,&quot; <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\"><strong>Sentence Ordered:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">While setting aside the life sentence, the bench ordered:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align:justify\"><span style=\"font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#333333\"><span style=\"background-color:#ffffff\">&quot;Instead the Appellant is convicted for the offence punishable under Section 304 (Part I) of IPC and is sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for a period of 10 years and to pay fine of Rs 5,000in default of payment of fine to undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months.&quot;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:14pt; text-align:justify\">With these observations, the bench allowed the appeal modifying the October 2024 judgment of the Mumbai Sessions Court.<\/span><\/p>\n \n \n \n <hr \/>\n \n <p><span style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<strong>C<\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"text-align:justify\">ASE DETAILS:<\/strong><span style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bombayhighcourt.nic.in\/generatenewauth.php?bhcpar=cGF0aD0uL3dyaXRlcmVhZGRhdGEvZGF0YS9qdWRnZW1lbnRzLzIwMjYvJmZuYW1lPTIzMTAwMDAwNTM3MjAyNV81LnBkZiZzbWZsYWc9TiZyanVkZGF0ZT0mdXBsb2FkZHQ9MTIvMDMvMjAyNiZzcGFzc3BocmFzZT0xNzAzMjYxMjU3MzAmbmNpdGF0aW9uPTIwMjY6QkhDLUFTOjEyMTc3LURCJnNtY2l0YXRpb249JmRpZ2NlcnRmbGc9WSZpbnRlcmZhY2U9Tw==\" style=\"text-align: justify; text-decoration-line: none;\"><span style=\"font-size:14.5pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Georgia,serif\"><span style=\"color:#1155cc\">Hemant Vasant Devrukhkar vs State of Maharashtra<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n \n \n \n <p><br \/>\n \n <br \/>\n \n <br \/>\n \n &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court recently reduced a man&#39;s life sentence to 10 years in prison. 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