Supreme Court of India

Shaik Abdul Azeez v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [1977] 3 S.C.R. 393
Decided 28 March 1977

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Pencd Code (Act 45 of 1860), 1860, section 303-Death Sentence for murder by life convici-Whether a p·erson sent,enced to imprisonment for life and later released by the Government by remission of sentence uls. 401 of the Cr. P. ., .1898 (1973 Code, s. 432) continues to "being under sentence of ifnprisonnient jor life" for the purpose of s. 303 I. P. .-Cri1ninal Procedure Code, 1898, sec. 401 (1973 Code, section 432)-Scope of. Section 303 I.P. . lays down that "whoever being under sentence of im­ ,prisonment for life commits murder shall be punislied with death". The appellant, for the offence

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