Supreme Court of India

Ramkirat Munilal Goud v. State of Maharashtra Etc.

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Reported as [2025] 6 S.C.R. 513
Bench Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol and Sandeep Mehta JJ.
Decided 6 May 2025

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons mentioned supra. (vi) The reports pertaining to the comparison of the samples taken from the other watchmen never saw the light of the day because prosecution chose not to place the same on record.

Judgment, page 32

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Matter pertains to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court upholding the conviction and death sentence of the appellant for causing rape and murder of a child aged 3 years and 9 months. Headnotes† Penal Code, 1860 – ss.302, 363, 376(2), 201 – Rape and murder of a child – Prosecution case that gruesome rape and murder of a child at the tender age of 3 years and 9 months – Dead body of child recovered from pond located at a distance of one kilometer from appellant’s house – Prosecution case based on circumstantial evidence-last seen together circumstance,

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