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Mofil Khan & Anr. v. State of Jharkhand

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Reported as [2014] 10 S.C.R. 812
Bench H.L. Dattu, R.K. Agrawal and Arun Mishra JJ.
Decided 9 October 2014

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we are in agreement with the reasons recorded by the Trial Court and approved by the High Court while awarding and confirming the death sentence of the accused-appellants.

Judgment, page 31

From the headnote

SENTENCE/SENTENCING: Murder - Sentencing policy - Held: The most significant aspect of sentencing policy is independent consideration of each case by the Court and extricating a sentence which is the most appropriate and proportional to the culpability of the 0 accused - Aggregating circumstance,s and mitigating circumstances, culled out - The doctrine of "rarest 'of rare" does not classify murders into categories of heinous or less heinous - The difference between two is not in the identity of the principles, but lies in the realm of application thereof to individual fact situations -

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