PUTTAN ALIAS ELLAPPAN Vs. STATE OF TAMIL NADU
LAWS(SC)-2000-1-136
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Decided on January 07,2000

PUTTAN ALIAS ELLAPPAN Appellant
VERSUS
STATE OF TAMIL NADU Respondents

JUDGEMENT

- (1.) Leave granted.
(2.) The facts of this case would show that the incident started when deceased operated the disputed water course to which objection was raised by the appellant and his father. When the water course was meddled with by the deceased, prosecution case is that appellant and his father (co-accused) attacked the deceased. This was followed by a wrangle between the deceased and the co-accused (father of the appellant) as they grappled between each other.
(3.) Father then called his son, the appellant for the assistance. When wife of the deceased interfered, the appellant gave her a blow with a Club. Thereafter, appellant went and procured a lethal weapon (knife) and inflicted as many as 8 injuries on the deceased to which he succumbed.;


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