Supreme Court of India

Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. State of Maharashtra, Thr. the Secretary, Home Department and Others

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Reported as [2015] 12 S.C.R. 661
Bench Dipak Misra, Prafulla C. Pant and Amitava Roy JJ.
Decided 29 July 2015

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We hold that condemned prisoners also have a right to dignity and execution of death sentence cannot be carried out in a arbitrary, hurried and secret manner without allowing the convicts to exhaust all legal remedies.

Judgment, page 25

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