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Sudden fight as a defense
Section 300 of PC speaks of situations in which if a murder is committed, it is treated as
‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’. One of the situations relevant to the current
discussion is, situation of ‘sudden fight’. It can be used as a defense to reduce criminal
liability from murder to culpable homicide not amounting to muder.
Exception 4. – Culpable homicide is not muder if it is committed without
premeditation in a sudden fight, in the heat of passion upon a sudden quarrel and
without the offendor’s having taken undue advantage or acted in a cruel or unusual
manner.
Explanation. – It is immaterial in such cases which party offers the provocation or
commits the first assault.
In Narayan Nair Raghavan v State of Travancore-Cochin, this exception requires that no
undue advantage be taken of the other side. It is impossible to state that there is no undue
advantage when a man stabs an unarmed person who makes no threatening gestures and
merely asks the accused to stop fighting. In these circumstances, the exception does not
apply.
In the case of Amrithalinga Nadar v State of Tamil Nadu, the exception is invoked
successfully as in this case both sides of parties were not taking undue advantage over each
other as the deceased was armed with a knife while the accused who was enraged by the
injuries from the deceased, inflicted a blow on him.
The case Surinder Kumar v Union Territory of Chandigarh lays down the requirement that
must be satisfied to invoke this exception which include, (i) it was a sudden fight; (ii) there
was no premeditation; (iii) the act was done in a heat of passion, and (iv) the assailant had
not taken any undue advantage or acted in a cruel manner. This case also explains that the
cause of the quarrel is not relevant nor is it relevant who offered the provocation or started
the assault. The number of wounds caused during the occurrence is not a decisive factor but
what is important is that the occurrence must have been sudden and unpremeditated and
the offendor must have acted in a fit of anger.

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