Supreme Court of India

Sheikh Ishaque and Ors. v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [1995] 2 S.C.R. 692
Bench A.S. Anand J.
Decided 10 March 1995

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the sentence of death imposed upon the four F appellants is not warranted.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code-Section 302 read with S.34-Death sen­ tence-Rarest of the rare case-Eleven accused charged and convicted and sentenced to death-High Court maintaining the conviction-Number of vic­ tims alone would not make the case "RAREST OF THE RARE"-Sen.tence of death commuted to sentence for imprisonment for life. Code Of Criminal Procedure-Section 354(3 )-Mandate of the section does not prove 'an eye for eye' approach. The complainant was sleeping in the night on the roof of his house. His two sons and his elder brother were sleeping in the shop house. On hearing bomb explosion the

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