Supreme Court of India

Bantu @ Naresh Giri v. State of M.P.

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Reported as [2001] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 298
Bench Shah J.
Decided 17 October 2001

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we confirm the conviction of the appellant under Section 302 IPC but modify the sentence by commuting the sentence of death to an imprisonmentfor life.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Anoop George Choudhary, Ms. Divya Suri, Ms. Bharti Tyagi and Uma Nath Singh for the Respondent. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by SHAH, J. Being aggrieved and dissatisfied by the order passed by the High Court of Judicature at Jabalpur, M.P., the accused has filed this appeal. By the impugned judgment and order dated 19.3.2001, the High Court con­ firmed the judgment and order passed by the Additional Sessions Judge, Umariya in Sessions Case No. 117 /99 convicting the appellant for the offence punishable under Sections 302 and 376 of Indian Penal Code and sentencing him to death. It

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