Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 382 · Decided 11 August 2003
Babu S/O Raveendran v. Babu S/O Bahuleyan and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 382 · [2003] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 389
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 270/1996
- Decided
- 11 August 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, H.K. SEMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 161, 164
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860-Section 302: Conviction-On basis of circum~tantial evidence-Acquittal by High. Court-Justification of-Held: When all the circumstantial evidence taken C together cumulatively lead and unerringly pointing to the guilt of the accused, conviction justified Death sentence-Award circumstances of D offenders and also crime not such life imprisonment not an inadequate punishment and also balance between aggravating and mitigating circumstances having been drawn, thus imposition of death sentence does not arise-Also the case not falling within the ambit of rarest of
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