Supreme Court of India
Raju v. State of Haryana
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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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Where later benches applied it
- 2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors.
- 2014 B. Kumar@ Jayakumar@ Left. Kr.@ S. Kumar v. Insp. of Police Th. C.B.C.L.D.
- 2013 Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra
Of those, 3 referred to
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