Supreme Court of India
Shabnam v. State of U. P.
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we concur with and confirm the reasons A recorded by the Trial Court and approved by the High Court while awarding and confirming the death sentence of the appellants-accused, respectively.
Judgment, page 27
From the headnote
Sentence/Sentencing- Death penalty- For the murder of seven persons of her own family including a 10 months old child - Propriety of- Held: Life Sentence is the rule and death sentence is the exception to be awarded in 'rarest of rare cases' - Death sentence is to be awarded only when life imprisonment appears to be an altogether inadequate punishment- The aggravating circumstances in the present case vii. victims of the crime, motive for commission of murder, manner of execution, magnitude of crime and remorseless attitude of the accused, outweigh the mitigating circumstances i.e. young age
Authorities it was built on
- 1983 Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab
- 1972 Jagmohan Singh v. The State of U. P.
- 2012 Ramnaresh & Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh
- 2010 Atbir v. Govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi
- 2003 State of Rajasthan v. Kheraj Ram
- 2001 Suresh and Anr. v. State of Up
- 2011 Ajitsingh Harnamsingh Gujral v. State of Maharashtra
- 2007 Ram Singh v. Sonia and Ors.
- 2005 Saibanna v. State of Karnataka
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