This news is based on ‘Can't equate liquor addiction with unsound mind, says SC’ published in the Time of India on January 05, 2023.  

Why in News?  

Upholding the conviction and life imprisonment sentence to a man who killed his two minor sons in 2009 in the National Capital, the Supreme Court rejected his defence that he was of unsound mind being a habitual drunkard and said that addiction to alcohol cannot be equated with unsound mind to escape prosecution in a criminal case.  

Relevant Legal Provisions  

As per Section 84 of IPC nothing is an offence which is committed by a person who, at the time of the crime, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of knowing the nature of the act.