Supreme Court of India

Raju Jagdish Paswan v. The State of Maharashtra

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Bench S.A. Bobde, L. Nageswara Rao and R. Subhash Reddy JJ.
Decided 17 January 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we are unable to agree with the courts below that the sentence of death is appropriate in this case.

Judgment, page 11

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