Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 289 · Decided 17 July 2012
Ajay Pandit @ Jagdish Dayabhai Patel & ANR. v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 289 · [2012] 10 S.C.R. 70
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 864/2006
- Decided
- 17 July 2012
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 419, 420, 302, 307, 397, 342, 328; CrPC Section 235(2)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 419, 420, 302, 307, 397, 342 and 328 - Cheating, Murder and attempt to murder - Two C separate incidents - Accused luring the victims to send them to America for better prospects - Extracting money from them - Instead of sending them to America, murdered one person and in the second incident murdered one and attempted to murder two - First case based on circumstantial D evidence - Eye-witnesses (victims) in the second incident - Conviction and life imprisonment by trial court - High Court confirming the conviction and enhancing the sentence to death - On
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