Supreme Court of India
Ram Deo Chauhan Alias Raj Nath Chauhan v. State of Assam
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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
- 2014 Mofil Khan & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand
- 2013 Deepak Rai v. State of Bihar
- 2011 Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral v. State of Maharashtra
Of those, 3 referred to
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