Supreme Court of India
Suresh v. State of U.P.
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we confirm the order of conviction but set aside the sentence of death imposed upon the appellant and sentence him to imprisonment for life for the offence under section 302 of the Penal Code.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
Sentence of death-Whether death sentence is called for has to be examined in each case with dispassionate care-Penal Code, section 302. Evidence-Trustworthiness of a witness, a child of five years, examined with out administering oath by reason of his lack of understanding the sanctity of oath. Conviction rested not on the evidence of sole eye-witness, a child of five years of age but other corroborative evidence. The appellant, a starving youth was given shelter by a kindly couple by engaging him as a domestic servant. The reward of that kindness was the murder of the lady cf the house and
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished
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