Supreme Court of India

Krishna Mochi and Ors. v. State of Bihar Etc.

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Reported as [2002] 3 S.C.R. 1

Bench M.B. Shah J.

Decided 15 April 2002

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid short-comings in the investigation and the evidence which only proves the presence of the accused at the scene of offence, this would not be a fit case for imposing the death penalty.

Judgment, page 52

From the headnote

Criminal Law: Terrorists and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987/Penal Code, 1860-Section 3/Section 302 read with Section 149-Death sentence- Justification of-Accused belonging to militant group a/lacked members of a particular community pursuant to conspiracy hatched-Gruesome carnage wherein 35 persons of a community massacred and many other injured besides destruction of houses by fire-119 person charge-sheeted out of which 13 were put on trial-Trial Court acquilling four of the accused and convicting others under TADA and !PC-Four of the accused convicted under Section 302 read

Authorities it was built on

1964 Masalti v. State of U. P cited by 86
1998 State of A.P. Etc. v. Thakkidiram Reddy and Ors. Etc. cited by 16

Where later benches applied it

2019 H Manoharan v. State by Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore (review Petition (crl.) Nos.446-447 of 2019) in relied on
2019 R. Jayapal v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr. relied on
2018 Menoka Malik and Others v. The State of West Bengal and Others relied on
2016 Ramesh and Others v. State of Haryana relied on
2015 Raja @ Rajinder v. State of Haryana relied on
2013 Manjit Singh & Anr. v. State of Punjab & Anr. relied on
2025 Rajan v. The State of Haryana referred to
2023 Vahitha v. State of Tamil Nadu referred to
2022 State through the Inspector of Police v. Laly @ Manikandan & Another Etc referred to
2017 Mukesh & Anr. v. State for Nct of Delhi & Ors. referred to
2013 Vyas Ram @ Vyas Kahar & Ors. v. State of Bihar referred to

Of those, 6 relied on · 5 referred to

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