Supreme Court of India

Ashok, Kumar v. The State (delhi Administration)

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Reported as [1995] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 777
Bench Madan Mohan Punchhi and Sujata V. Manohar JJ.
Decided 19 September 1995

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the conviction of the appellant is well-based and the chain of circumstances H having tightened the ring of guilt around him successfully.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Criminal Law : Indian Penal Code, 1860: c S.302-Murder-Husband killed by wife and her lover allegedly with a stone-Wife convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment and fine-Other accused convicted and sentenced to death-Confinned by High Cowt-Ap­ peal prefe"ed by the main accused but not by the co-accused-Held, the act. of the main accused was not so crnel, unusual or diabolical to wa"ant death penalty-Sentence commuted to life imprisonment. The accused as also his co-accused Smt. P. belong to the same village in Rajasthan and had a long knit physical intimacy with each other. Smt. P. was

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