Supreme Court of India

K.P. Tamilmaran v. The State by Deputy Superintendent of Police

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Reported as [2025] 4 S.C.R. 1865

Bench Sudhanshu Dhulia and Prashant Kumar Mishra JJ.

Decided 28 April 2025

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From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the High Court was justified in upholding the conviction and sentence of -15 under Sections 217, 218, Penal Code, 1860 and ss.3(2)(i), 4, SC/ST Act, 1989 and modifying the conviction and sentence of -14, while upholding the conviction and sentence of the other co-accused. Headnotes† Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302 r/w 149, 217, 218 – Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 – ss.3(2)(i), 4 – Murder of a young couple in the name of honour killing where the girl belonged to the Vanniyar community and the boy was a Dalit – Eventually, 11

Authorities it was built on

2013 Lalita Kumari v. Govt. of U.P. and Ors. cited by 46
2006 Zahira Habibullah Sheikh and Anr. v. State of Gujarat and Ors. cited by 19
1967 Jamatraj Kewalji Govani v. The State of Maharashtra cited by 15
2012 Bhajju @ Karan Singh v. State of M.P. cited by 12
2012 Ramesh Harijan v. State of U.P. cited by 11
2019 Dipakbhai Jagdishchandra Patel v. State of Gujarat and Another cited by 6
1975 Sat Pal v. Delhi Administration cited by 6
1981 Ram Chander v. State of Haryana cited by 6
2022 Neeraj Dutta v. State (govt. of N.C.T. of Delhi) cited by 4
1972 Mahabir Mandal and Others v. State of Bihar cited by 4
2014 Paulmeli and Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu Tr. Insp. of Police cited by 4
1974 Raghunandan v. State of U.P. cited by 4
2006 State of A.P. v. S. Rayappa and Ors. cited by 3
2021 Jaikam Khan v. The State of Uttar Pradesh cited by 2
2007 Rama Paswan and Ors. v. State of Jharkhand cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2025 Tarun Sharma v. State of Haryana mentioned

Of those, 1 mentioned

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