Supreme Court of India
Gurmeet Singh v. State of U.P.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that no absolute or unqualified rule can be laid down that in every case in which there is a long delay in the p execution of a death sentence, the sentence must be substituted by the sentence of life imprisonment.
Judgment, page 10
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1870: Section 302-Murder-Death sentence-Commutation of death sentence c to life imprisonment-Accused came with swords and started shouting and indiscriminately attacked and killed thirteen members of his family who were asleep at various places in his farmhouse-It was a moonlit night-Trial court sentenced the accused to death-However, there was a difference of opinion between the two Judges who constituted the Bench hearing the appeal-One Judge was for dismissal of the appeal and maintaining conviction and the death sentence while the other was for acquittal of the accused- The
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