Supreme Court of India

Veerendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [2022] 4 S.C.R. 225
Bench A. M. Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and C. T. Ravikumar JJ.
Decided 13 May 2022

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the ratio laid down in Swamy Shraddananda (supra) that a special category of sentence; instead of death can be substituted by the punishment of imprisonment for life or for a term exceeding 14 years and put that category beyond application of remission is well-founded and we answer the said question in the affirmative.

Judgment, page 50

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 376A, 376 (2)(i), 302 – POCSO Act – s. 6 – Rape and murder of a minor girl – Prosecution case that appellant-accused had raped and throttled to cause death of victim , who was daughter of appellant’s cousin sister – Whil e in custody during interrogation, the appellant made disclosure stat ement and thereafter, at his instance, the victim’s corpse concealed u nderneath gunny bags, was recovered – The post-mortem and the forensic science laboratory (FSL) reports revealed commission of rape in a diabolically and gruesome manner and causing of dea th by throttling – Trial

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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