Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1493 · Decided 19 December 2008
Aqeel Ahmad v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1493 · [2008] 17 S.C.R. 1330
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 595/2007
- Decided
- 19 December 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 149, 148; CrPC Section 157
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 302 rlw. s. 149 and s. 148 - c Accused armed with weapons entering house of informant - Exhortation by four - Appellant and other fired at informant's son resulting in their death - Conviction of appellant u/s. 302 and imposed death sentence - Conviction of others uls. to life imprisonment- Accused also D convicted uls. 148 with two years imprisonment - Upheld by High Court however, death sentence of appellant altered to life imprisonment- Correctness of- Held: Special report was sent to Magistrate ·and he received the same on the fourth day of the
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