Supreme Court of India

Ram Deo Chauhan Alias Raj Nath Chauhan v. State of Assam

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Reported as [2000] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 28
Bench K.T. Thomas and R.P. Sethi JJ.
Decided 31 July 2000

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the accused in the present case must be given death sentence.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code 1860 : Section 302. Murder-Circumstantial evidence-Conviction based on-Imposition of death penalty-Legality of Death Penalty-Accused-Quadruple murder of four members of a fam­ ily including a child and two women-Murders committed after previous plan­ ning and in the most brutal manner-Medical evidence indicating that accused was not deprived of his senses at the time of commission of offence-Confession of accused duly proved-Sentence of death imposed by Trial Court and af­ firmed by High Court-Appeal before Supreme Court-Held the case of the accused falls under rarest of the

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 referred to

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