Supreme Court of India
Madan v. State of Uttar Pradesh
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What the Court ordered
We are of the considered view that the present case would fall in the middle path as laid down in the case of Swamy Shraddananda (2) alias Murali Manohar Mishra (supra), followed by this Court in various judgments.
Judgment, page 47
From the headnote
Issue for consideration: Six deaths were caused on account of brutal fi ring by the appellants and other accused persons. The trial court imposed sentence of capital punishment to the appellants (‘M’ and ‘S’) herein for the off ence punishable u/s. 302 r/w. s.149 of IPC, while it sentenced accused ‘I’ to imprisonment for life for the same. (i) Whether the pros ecution has proved beyond reasonable doubt the case for conviction u/s. 302 of IPC; (ii) Whether the present case falls in the category of rarest of rare cases; (ii) Whether on the facts of the present case, the capital punishm ent
Authorities it was built on
- 1983 Machhl Singh and Others v. State of Punjab
- 2008 Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra v. State of Karnataka
- 2009 Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. State of Maharashtra
- 2012 Ramnaresh & Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh
- 2013 Shankar Kisanrao Khade v. State of Maharashtra
- 2013 Mohinder Singh v. State of Punjab
- 2001 Prakash Dhawal Khairnar (patil) v. State of Maharashtra
- 1995 Karnel Singh v. The State of M.P.
- 2018 Chhannu Lal Verma v. The State of Chhattisgarh
- 2018 Babasaheb Maruti Kamble v. State of Maharashtra
- 2021 Irappa Siddappa Murgannavar v. State of Karnataka
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 referred to
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