The Telangana High Court has held that causing the death of a person by hitting him with a lathi or stick does not necessarily imply intent to cause death and thus may count as culpable homicide not amounting to murder.The Division Bench of Justice K. Lakshman and Justice K Srujana thereby overturned the conviction of the accused under section 302 IPC (murder) to 304-II (culpable homicide...