Supreme Court of India

Srirangan v. State of Tamil Nadu

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Reported as [1978] 2 S.C.R. 270
Decided 30 November 1977

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Sentence-Choice between life term and death penalty in awardiJJR sentence-Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (Act II of 1974). Section 354(3), scope of. , Tbe appellant young in age and a mental case was prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to death for the offence of triple murders, since the testimony of dementia fell far short of the prescription in s. 84, I.P. . The appeal before the High Court having failed, this Court granted Special leave confined to the question of sentence. Maintaining the conviction but modifying the death sentence to one of life imprisonment, the court, HELD : In this

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