Supreme Court of India
Sudam @ Rahul Kaniram Jadhav v. State of Maharashtra
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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
- 2014 Anil @ Anthony Arikswamy Joseph v. State of Maharashtra
- 2012 Oma @ Omprakash and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 2014 Mofil Khan & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand
- 2013 Deepak Rai v. State of Bihar
- 2013 Kanhaiya Lal & Ors. v. State of Rajasthan
Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to
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