Supreme Court of India

Rajesh Kumar v. State through Govt. of Nct of Delhi-ii

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Reported as [2011] 15 S.C.R. 92
Bench D.K. Jain and Asok Kumar Ganguly JJ.
Decided 28 September 2011

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We hold that death sentence cannot be inflicted on the appellant since the dictum of Constitution Bench in Bachan Singh (supra) is that the legislative policy in Section 354(3) of 1973 Code is that for 0 person convicted of murder, life imprisonment is the rule and death sentence, an exception, and the mitigating circumstances must be given due consideration.

Judgment, page 43

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