Supreme Court of India

Sunder @ Sundararajan v. State by Inspector of Police

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Reported as [2013] 4 S.C.R. 25
Bench P. Sathasivam and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 5 February 2013

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Penal Code, 1860- ss.364A, 302 and 201- Kidnapping . for ransom and murder - Of seven year old boy - Circumstantial evidence - Conviction and death sentence by courts below - Held: Conviction as well as the sentence does not call for interference - Kidnapping and demand of ransom proved by witnesses - Factum of kidnapping having been proved, the inference of consequential murder is liable to be presumed in the absence of discharge of onus by the kidnapper to prove the release of the kidnapped - Accused failed to prove the release of the deceased from his custody - Thus in .the circumstances

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