Supreme Court of India

Vikram Singh@ Vicky & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2013] 8 S.C.R. 1090
Bench T.S. Thakur and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya JJ.
Decided 2 July 2013

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Penal Code, 1860 - s. 364A - Constitutional validity of - Challenged by appellants-convicts on the ground that inasmuch as the same prescribes death sentence for a case of kidnapping for ransom, the same is so harsh as to make it . unreasonable and unfair hence violative of Article 21 of the Constitution - Matter referred to larger Bench in view of the o peculiar fact situation in which the instant case arose and the grounds on which provisions of s. 364A were assailed - Constitution of India, 1950 - Article 21. The appellants were sentenced to death by hanging both under Section 302 and 364A

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