Supreme Court of India
Sheikh Abdul Hamid and Another v. State of Madhypradesh
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the ends of justice would be met if we substitute the death sentence with that of life imprisonment under Sections 302/34 !PC, while upholding the appellants' conviction, as recorded by the High Court.
Judgment, page 7
From the headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 302134-Murder of wife and children-Circumstantial evidence-Body exhumed from inner room of Dhaba-Not accessible to outsiders-Trial Court convicted the appeilants and sentenced them to death-Conviction upf,2ld by High Court and sentence confirmed-On appeal, Held, circumstantial evidence is consistent with the guilt of the accused as all the links of chain of circumstances are unbroken and complete-Conviction justified Indian Evidence Act, 1872 : Section 5-Murder-Conviction based on circumstantial evidence-,--Validity of Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: Sec1ion
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