Supreme Court of India

Sudam @ Rahul Kaniram Jadhav v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2011] 6 S.C.R. 1104
Bench Harjit Singh Bedi and Chandramauli Kr. Prasad JJ.
Decided 4 July 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the case in hand falls in the category of the rarest of the rare cases and the trial court did not err in awarding the death sentence and the High court confirming the same. o.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss.302, 201 - Homicidal death - c Death due to strangulation - Five deceased - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Appellant-accused living with the deceased woman as husband and wife, along with four children, two from her first husband and two from the appellant - By projecting himself to be single, appellant married another woman (PW-6) - When deceased woman discovered the illicit relationship of appellant and PW-6, she agreed to pay Rs.15000 to PW-6 to leave appellant - Appellant, thereafter, came back with the deceased woman and children to his village - After

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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