Supreme Court · 1994 INSC 310 · Decided 10 August 1994
Amrutlal Someshwar Joshi v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1994 INSC 310 · [1994] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 510
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 87/1994
- Decided
- 10 August 1994
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, K. JAYACHANDRA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 186<>-Section 301-indian Evidence Ac~ 1872- Section 3--Circumstantial evidence: C ITT1ere circumstances established by independent evidence are sufficient to bring home the guilt to the accused beyond all reasonable doubt, the conviction under Section 302 can be safely the helpless Infirm victims in the most cruel and diabolical manner only with a view to commit robbery and his subsequent conduct also manifests an exceptional depravity, hi11 case Is one of the rarest of the rare cases ·in which death sentence Is justified. . . ' The accused-appellant
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