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Opponent’s Legal Claim Elements of Opponent’s Facts to support My Defence(s) Facts to Support my defence Source of Proof Informal Discovery Formal Discovery
Claim Opponent’s claim
- Murder under For Murder Sagnik was intentionally For Murder - The act was committed in - Arvind’s - Arvind’s - Post-accident
Secion 300 of IPC - Death is caused by the pushed while fully - The death of the train good faith, i.e. in order to testimony/ testimony reports.
- Culpable Homicide commission of acknowledging the risk that passengers was neither save the lives of 5 statements - Sagnik’s - Testimonies of
under Section 301 Culpable homicide such an act is likely to cause caused with the intention workmen. - Sagnik’s testimony the accident
r/w Section 299 of with the intention of his death. The death of the of causing death under - There was no intention of testimony/ - Metadata on investigators.
IPC either causing death; train passengers was a direct first part Section 300 nor causing the death of the statements after Sagnik’s - Report on
bodily injury that is consequence of pushing was the act so train passengers, not could the incident selfies to maintenance of
likely to cause death; Sagnik onto the tracks. It was imminently dangerous to it have been anticipatable - Investigation prove the railway tracks
bodily injury inflicted a deliberate, intentional act the train passengers that that such an act would report on the duration of - Witness accounts
that is sufficient in the that could cause the death of it would cause their cause the death of the train accidents time from the
ordinary course of the train passengers. deaths. passenger. - Report on between workmen
nature to cause death; For Culpable Homicide - There were only 2 minutes maintenance of identifying
or intentionally - There is no causal to find a solution in the said railway tracks workmen
commit an act that is relationship with the act situation. and time of
imminently so and the result as pushing - The cause of death of the accident.
dangerous that it is in Sagnik onto the tracks is passengers was the
all probability likely not proximate to the derailment of the train due
to cause death. breaking of sleepers to breaking of the sleepers
For Culpable Homicide which in-turn deformed which in-turn deformed the
- If any person the tracks and derailed rails.
intentionally commits the train. This event is
an act that is likely to statistically improbable
cause death that results and could not have been
in the death of a anticipated in the given
person whose death situation.
was not intended, it - The act of pushing
shall amount to Sagnik onto the tracks
culpable homicide as was done in good faith,
if the death of such a i.e. without malice.
person was intended.