Supreme Court of India

Shankar @ Gaurl Shankar and Others v. State of Tamil Nadu

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Reported as [1994] 3 S.C.R. 298

Bench K. Jayachandra Reddy J.

Decided 4 April 1994

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that those retracted confessions of co-accused can not be taken into consideration for assessing the nature of participation of A-3 for the the purpose of deciding whether his case is one of the rarest of rare cases.

Judgment, page 51

Authorities it was built on

1974 Ediga Anamma v. State of Andhra Pradesh cited by 28
1969 Mohd. Hussain Umar Kochra Etc. v. K. S. Dalipsinghji & Anr., Etc. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2025 Vibhor Garg v. Neha referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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