Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 309 · Decided 29 November 1976
Amrit Bhushan Gupta v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 309 · [1977] 2 S.C.R. 240
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 383/1976
- Decided
- 29 November 1976
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, JASWANT SINGH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226, 136
Headnote
Pemil Code-S. 84-Person convicted and sentenced to dtath wrni11g in­ sane afterwards-If execution shouldi be stayed tW he becamt sant. A. petition, under Art. 226 of the Constitution was filed in the High Court on behalf of the appellant, who was sentenced to death, praying that, since the sentence. The High Court dismissed the petition holding that if the appellant .C were really insane, the appropriate authorites would take necessasy action. D E F G In appeal, to this Court, it was contended that a convicted person who became insane after conviction and sentence could not be
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