Supreme Court of India

Kamta Tiwari v. State of M.P.

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 507

Bench M.K. Mukherjee and S.P. Kurdukar JJ.

Decided 4 September 1996

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Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 302, 363, 376 and 201-Death Sentence-Rarest of rare case-Kidnapping, Rape and murder of the minor girl-Conviction based on circumstantial evidence-Held, in the facts and circumstances death sentence awarded by Courts below is upheld. minor girl, aged about 7 year, was raped and murdered by the appellant, a neighbour who was close to the family of the deceased and her dead body was thrown into a well. The Prosecution relied upon the circumstantial evidence, since there was no eye-witness. The defence of the appellant was that he had been falsely implicated.

Where later benches applied it

2022 Pappu v. The State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2014 Vasant Sampat Dupare v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2014 Raj Kumar v. State of M.P. relied on
2020 Shatrughna Baban Meshram v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. referred to
2013 State of Rajasthan v. Jamil Khan referred to
2013 Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 4 referred to

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