Supreme Court of India

Prajeet Kumar Singh v. State of Bihar

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Reported as [2008] 5 S.C.R. 969

Decided 2 April 2008

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8 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid facts, we are of the view that there would be failure of justice in case death sentence is not awarded in the present case.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: s.302 - Brutal murder of 3 innocent defenceless children -Also injury to parents and another child - Conviction under s. 302 and award of death sentence - c Justification of - Held: Justified as evidence of eyewitnesses cogent and point to the guilt of accused - They were residing in the house where incident happened and therefore their presence at the time of incident cannot be ruled out - These witnesses were direct relations of deceased children and thus ". plea of false implication of accused leaving actual culprit is highly improbable and unacceptable - Punishment of

Where later benches applied it

2014 Raj Kumar v. State of M.P. relied on
2012 Ramnaresh & Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh relied on
2015 Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Ors. referred to
2014 Mofil Khan & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand referred to
2013 Deepak Rai v. State of Bihar referred to
2012 Absar Alam @ Afsar Alam v. State of Bihar referred to
2011 Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2017 Sheikh Juman & Anr. Etc. v. State of Blhar mentioned

Of those, 2 relied on · 5 referred to · 1 mentioned

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