Supreme Court of India

Ram Singh v. Sonia and Ors.

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Reported as [2007] 2 S.C.R. 651

Bench B.N. Agra Wal and P.P. Naolekar JJ.

Decided 15 February 2007

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the case against A-1 has been proved by the prosecution beyond reasonable doubt and, therefore, order of conviction of A-1 passed by the trial court and upheld by the High Court is unassailable.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: Section 302 rlw Sections 34 and 120- . Murder-'Rarest of rare' cases-Death sentence-Imposition of Justification-Extrajudicial confession-Circumstantial evidence-Accused -1 (daughter) along with her husband accused -2 had not only murdered her step brother and his whole family, which included three children of 45 days, 2 112 years and 4 years but also her own father, mother, sister and sister-in-law while they were sleeping so as to prevent her father from giving the property to her step brother and his family-Trial court convicted the accused persons on the basis of

Authorities it was built on

1963 State of Uttar Pradesh v. Singhara Singh and Others cited by 49
1992 Madan Gopal Kakkad v. Naval Dubey and Anr. cited by 23

Where later benches applied it

2015 Shabnam v. State of U. P. relied on
2012 Jagroop Singh v. State of Punjab relied on
2014 Mofil Khan & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand referred to
2013 Deepak Rai v. State of Bihar referred to
2011 Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral v. State of Maharashtra referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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