Murder while drunk is culpable homicide: Madras HC
Reducing the life imprisonment awarded to one Deepak to a five-year jail term, a division bench of Justice R Subramanian and Justice N Sathish Kumar said: "The evidence available on record clearly shows that the accused, his uncle and the deceased had fully drunk and state of intoxication was such that he was incapable of forming a specific intent. Therefore, he is guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder."
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Reducing the life imprisonment awarded to one Deepak to a five-year jail term, a division bench of Justice R Subramanian and Justice N Sathish Kumar said: "The evidence available on record clearly shows that the accused, his uncle and the deceased had fully drunk and state of intoxication was such that he was incapable of forming a specific intent. Therefore, he is guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder." 
