Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 35 · Decided 6 January 2025
Abdul Nassar v. State of Kerala & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 35 · [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1122/2018
- Decided
- 6 January 2025
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA, K.V. VISWANATHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376; CrPC Section 394(2); Juvenile Justice Act
Headnote
Whether the prosecution has proved by leading clinching and convincing circumstantial evidence that the accused had committed forcible and violent sexual assault on the child victim and, thereafter, strangled and killed her. Penal Code, 1860 - case that accused had committed forcible and violent sexual assault on the child victim and, thereafter, strangled and killed her - The trial Court found accused/appellant guilty of the offences punishable u/ss.302 and 376 of IPC - Trial Court awarded capital punishment to the
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