Supreme Court of India
Des Raj v. Sta Te of Punjab
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Sentence/Sentencing-Murder-Over a petty dispute retired police -f constable opening fire, resulting in death of three neighbours-Award of c death sentence-Justification of-Held: Murder committed not to satisfy pny greed or lust;- there was no pre-meditation; no cruelty or torture of victim; act not brutal, diabolic or revolting nor accused had bad antecedents-On careful balancing of aggravating and mitigating circumstances, inspite of gravity of crime, aggravating circumstances did not overwhelmingly outweigh mitigating circumstances-Thus, no/ a rarest of rare case-Death penalty modified to
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