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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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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- 1983 Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab
- 2005 State (n.c.t. of Delhi) v. Navjot Sandhu@afsan Guru
- 2014 Mohd. Arif @ashfaq v. He Registrar, Supreme Court of India & Ors.
- 1979 Hussainara Khatoon & Ors. v. Home Secretary, State of Bihar, Patna
- 2013 Kamlesh Verma v. Mayawati and Ors.
- 2002 Krishna Mochi and Ors. v. State of Bihar Etc.
- 1957 Subramania Goundan v. The State of Madras
- 1999 Suthenthiraraja@ Santhan and Ors. Etc. Etc. v. State through Dsp/cbi, Sit, Chennai Etc. Etc.
- 2017 Vikram Singh @ Vicky Walia and Anr. v. State of Punjab and Anr.
- 2018 Mukesh v. State of Nct of Delhi
- 2002 Devender Pal Singh v. State N.C.T. of Delhi and Anr.
- 1969 Abdul Rajak Murtaja Dafedar v. State of Maharashtra
- 1994 Shivappa v. State of Karnataka
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