Supreme Court of India

Ravji @ Ram Chandra v. State of Rajasthan

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Reported as [1995] SUPP. 6 S.C.R. 195

Bench G.N. Ray J.

Decided 5 December 1995

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From the headnote

Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 302 and 307. Death Penalty-Accused committing five murders including that of his pregnant wife and three minor children while the victims were sleeping-At- tempt to murder two persons-Commission of crime established beyond doubt-Relevancy of motive-Crime omitted in a cruel and brutal manner with a conscious state of mind-No sign of remorse-Award of death penal ty-Held justified. The appellant was prosecuted for committing five murders and attempt to murder two persons. The prosecution case was that he killed his wife, who was in advanced stage of pregnancy,

Where later benches applied it

2013 State of M.P. v. Babulal & Ors. relied on
2012 State of Rajasthan v. Vinod Kumar relied on
2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others referred to
2022 Manoj & Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2022 Jaswinder Singh (dead) through Legal Representative v. Navjot Singh Sidhu & Ors. referred to
2021 Patan Jamal Vali v. The State of Andhra Pradesh referred to
2019 Manoharan v. State by Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore referred to
2019 The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Suresh referred to
2015 Shanti Lal Meena v. State of Nct of Delhi, Cbi referred to
2014 Sumer Singh v. Surajbhan Singh and Others referred to
2014 Shatrughan Chauhan & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2013 Deepak Rai v. State of Bihar referred to
2013 Mahendra Nath Das v. Union of India and Others referred to
2013 Mohinder Singh v. State of Punjab referred to
2012 Sangeet & Anr. v. State of Haryana referred to
2012 State of U.P. v. Sanjay Kumar referred to
2011 Rajesh Kumar v. State through Govt. of Nct of Delhi-ii referred to
2011 Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2012 Alister Anthony Pareira v. State of Maharashtra distinguished

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 distinguished · 16 referred to

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