Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 80 · Decided 7 February 2012
Absar Alam @ Afsar Alam v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 80 · [2012] 1 S.C.R. 890
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1436/2010
- Decided
- 7 February 2012
- Bench
- A.K. PATNAIK, SWATANTER KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Sentence/sentencing - Imposition of death sentence - Propriety of - Appellant accused his mother to have been the C cause of his wife running away from house and out of anger, appellant cutting neck of his mother and severing her head, fled away with the head - Conviction of appellant ulss. 302 sentence by courts below - On appeal held: Appellant was an illiterate rustic and a D cultivator residing in a village with virtually no control over his · emotions - He over-reacted impulsively to the situation and severed neck of his mother - Thus, conviction of the appellant upheld but
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