Supreme Court of India

Muthuramalingam & Ors. v. State Represented by Inspector of Police

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Reported as [2016] 8 S.C.R. 594

Bench Pinaki Chandra Ghose J.

Decided 9 December 2016

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that the accused-appellants did cause the death of eight persons in a barbaric and brutal manner wherein merciless killing of a child of only I Y2 years is also involved.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860: ss.147, 148, 324, 307, 302 - Gruesome attack - Murder of 8 family members - 21 accused - Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment for each count and sentence of imprisonment for 10 years ordered to run consecutively - On appeal, held: Prosecution case was well established by the testimonies of eye-witnesses and duly corroborated wherein factum of unlawful assembly was proved -Accused-appellants caused the death of eight persons in a barbaric and brutal manner wherein merciless killing of a child of only 1 Yi years was also involved - Therefore, conviction is upheld -

Authorities it was built on

1958 Mizaji and Another v. The State of U.P. cited by 8
2003 Chittarmal v. State of Rajasthan cited by 4
1965 Jahiruddin v. K. D. Rathi, Factory Manager, the Model Mills Nagpur Ltd. cited by 4
1962 Mohan Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2021 Sunil Kumar @ Sudhir Kumar & Anr. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh followed
2019 Rajan v. The Home Secretary, Home Department of Tamil Nadu and Ors. followed
2018 Jitendra @ Kalla v. State of Govt. of Nct of Delhi followed
2026 Gopi @ Sahaya Puruno v. The State mentioned
2021 Sunil Kumar @ Sudhir Kumar & Anr. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh mentioned
2019 Union of India v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. mentioned
2019 Rajan v. The Home Secretary, Home Department of Tamil Nadu and Ors. mentioned
2018 Jitendra @ Kalla v. State of Govt. of Nct of Delhi mentioned

Of those, 3 followed · 5 mentioned

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