Supreme Court of India

Sheo Shankar Singh v. State of Jharkhand & Anr.

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Reported as [2011] 4 S.C.R. 312

Bench V.S. Sirpurkar and T.S. Thakur JJ.

Decided 15 February 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court was not justified in imposing the extreme penalty of death upon the appellants.

Judgment, page 54

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 - s.302 rlw s.34 - Murder - Person shot down on road, while he was riding pillion seat of motorcycle driven by PW 16 - Appellant S allegedly drove his motorcycle to the left of PW16's motorcycle, while appellant U, riding pillion, fired gun shots at the deceased from close range - Allegation that accused-appellants were part of the coal mafia and deceased, a sitting member of the State Legislative Assembly, incurred their wrath as he opposed their activities - Eye-witness account of PW16 and PW6 - Trial Court convicted the appellants and sentenced them to life imprisonment -

Authorities it was built on

2009 Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 54
2008 State of U.P. v. Kishanpal & Ors cited by 23
1970 Budhsen v. State of U.P. cited by 17
2003 Surendra Paswan v. State of Jharkhand cited by 7
1962 Krishna Govind Patil v. State of Maharashtra cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2015 Ranjeet Kumar Ram@ Ranjeet Kumar Das v. State of Bihar relied on
2013 Karan Singh v. State of Haryana and Anr. relied on
2013 Habib v. State of Uttar Pradesh relied on
2012 Darbara Singh v. State of Punjab relied on
2012 Shyamal Ghosh v. State of West Bengal relied on
2022 Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel v. State of U.P. referred to
2012 Surajit Sarkar v. State of West Bengal referred to

Of those, 5 relied on · 2 referred to

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