Supreme Court of India
Kanhaiya Lal & Ors. v. State of Rajasthan
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What the Court ordered
We are of the considered opinion that the view expressed by the High Court does not suffer from any such infirmity.
Judgment, page 26
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 460, 148, 427 and 342 - Murder - By unlawful assembly with a common object - Conviction - Conversion of death sentence into life imprisonment by High Court - Sustainability - Held: The crime took place because the village Sarpanch suspected that the deceased persons were responsible for killing his son - All accused persons have almost spent thirteen years in custody - Similarly placed persons have been imposed life sentence - Regard being had to the totality of the circumstances, it cannot be said that imprisonment for life was inadequate and the circumstances so
Authorities it was built on
- 1983 Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab
- 2010 C. Muniappan & Ors. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 2011 Haresh Mohandas Rajput v. State of Maharashtra
- 1989 Lalji & Ors. v. State of U.P.
- 1995 Kartik Malhar v. State of Bihar
- 2011 Rabindra Kumar Pal @ Dara Singh v. Republic of India
- 2001 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Gian Chand
- 2011 Surendra Koli v. State of U.P. and Ors.
- 2011 Ramachandran & Ors. Etc. v. State of Kerala
- 2011 State of Rajasthan v. Shera Ram @ Vishnu Dutta
- 1972 Sohrab S/o Beli Nayata & Anr. v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- 2007 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Bacchudas@ Balaram and Ors.
- 2011 Sudam @ Rahul Kaniram Jadhav v. State of Maharashtra
- 2011 State of Rajasthan Th. Secy.home Dept. v. Abdul Mannan & Anr.
- 2011 Kilakkatha Parambath Sasi & Ors. v. State of Kerala
Where later benches applied it
- 2021 Rahul v. State of Haryana
- 2025 Zainul v. The State of Bihar
- 2021 Rajendra @ Rajappa and Ors. v. State of Karnataka
Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to
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