Supreme Court of India

H Manoharan v. State by Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore (review Petition (crl.) Nos.446-447 of 2019) in

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Reported as [2019] 18 S.C.R. 1078
Bench R. F. Nariman, Surya Kant and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 7 November 2019

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the present offence(s) of the Petitioner 21 1969 SCC (1) 347. 1115 are so grave as to shock the conscience of this Court and of society and would without doubt amount to rarest of the rare.

Judgment, page 37

From the headnote

Review – In death penalty cases – Application of rest rictive principles – Murder – Rape – Co-accused (now deceas ed) using borrowed school van, picked up a 10-year old girl and her 7- year old brother who were waiting to go to school – He thereafter pi cked up his friend (accused-petitioner) from his house – irl child was raped and sodomised – Both children were administered poison (cow dung powder) mixed in milk – However, they spat out the substance and only ingested a small portion – Since poisoning did not work, the children were thrown into a nearby canal, leading to their death by

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