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The Court found that the wife’s statement that she could keep a thousand husbands like him constituted grave and sudden provocation within Exception 1 to Section 300 IPC, and that the fatal injuries were consistent with a single blow rather than repeated pelting, bringing the case within Section 304 Part II rather than Part I.
The Court emphasised that while multiple life sentences may be imposed, they cannot run consecutively but operate simultaneously, so that remission in one does not ipso facto apply to others.
On 12-02-2025, the Court found Sajjan Kumar guilty of inter alia murder, rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, attempt to commit culpable homicide, dacoity, arson, and mischief.
“The crime committed by the convict was diabolic in character. He enticed the innocent child by tempting him with ice-cream and brutally sodomized and murdered the four-year old. The appellant also mercilessly strangulated the deceased. The post-mortem report clearly indicated that death was due to asphyxia by throttling”.
“The applicant [MK Nasar] has been undergoing incarceration, at the pre-conviction and post-conviction phases, for over 9 years. Furthermore, the fact that the accused facing the same allegations were earlier imposed a lesser term of imprisonment and have been released after having undergone the sentence is a factor that cannot be ignored.”
‘No reason to interfere with the well-considered findings.’ The High Court’s and Trial Court’s decision for convicting the man for offence under Section 376 of IPC was upheld.
The circumstances and the witness statements proved the husband’s complicity in killing wife beyond reasonable doubt.
The Supreme Court was of the view that the High Court ought to have interfered with the conviction when it found one of the links in circumstantial evidence missing and not proved, respecting the settled law in this regard.
In 2015, a young Dalit Engineering student was abducted, and his head was severed for allegedly having a relationship with an upper caste woman.
Supreme Court: In a case where the order of conviction and sentence was passed on the same day, the 3-judge bench of
Supreme Court: A 3-judge bench of Arun Mishra, Vineet Saran, and MR Shah, JJ has commuted the death sentence of a convict,
Supreme Court: Noticing that where death sentence could be one of the alternative punishments, the courts must be completely vigilant and see
Supreme Court: A bench headed by Justice N V Ramana has declined to entertain a plea of P Rajagopal, the founder of
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of NV Ramana, MM Shantanagoudar and Indira Banerjee, JJ has upheld the conviction and sentence of life
Supreme Court: Modifying the order dated 09.07.2014 where the State Governments were restrained from exercising their powers of remission and commutation of