Supreme Court of India

Raju v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [2001] 3 S.C.R. 409
Bench M.B. Shah and Brijesh Kumar JJ.
Decided 2 May 2001

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated the impugned order of the High A Court is set aside and that of the Magistrate is restored.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Indian Penal Code-Sections 302 and 376-Death Penalty-Justification i of-Accused raped and thereafter committed murder of an 11 year old girl- Accused admitted that he had committed murder as the girl threatened to disclose the incident to her family-Accused not a habitual criminal-Held, c this is not the rarest of rare crimes justifying death penalty . ... The Appellant was prosecuted for commission of offences under Sections, ' 302, 376 and 363 of the Indian Penal Code. The prosecution stQry was that on 5.1.1997, the deceased, an eleven-year-old girl, had gone out to fetch milk at about 6

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