Supreme Court of India

Mayakaur Baldevsingh Sardar and Anr. v. The State of Maharashtra

Neutral citation
Reported as [2007] 10 S.C.R. 752
Bench S.B. Sinha and H.S. Bedi JJ.
Decided 8 October 2007

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that in the peculiar circumstances that we now face we are not inclined to reverse the life sentences awarded by the High Court and to re-impose the death penalty on the accused.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860-s. 302134-Prosecutionfor murder and attempt to murder-Members of parental family causing death of the c members of matrimonial family of the injured eye-l-Yitness-Motive for the assault being eye-witness marrying a person.from lower caste- Severe injuries sustained by the eye-witness-As per medical evidence she was under tremendous shock-Disclosure of the names of the accused after eight days of the incident-Arrest of the accused much before the disclosure-One of the accused not belonging to the parental family of the witness-Trial Court acquitting two accused and r--

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to · 1 mentioned

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