Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 120 · Decided 9 May 1980
Bachan Singh ETC. ETC. v. State of Punjab ETC. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 120 · [1983] 1 S.C.R. 145
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 273/1979
- Decided
- 9 May 1980
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.N. BHAGWATI, R.S. SARKARIA, A.C. GUPTA, N.L. UNTWALIA (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 354(3); CrPC Section 354(3); Constitution Article 6, 19(J), 19(I)
Headnote
145 (A} Death Penalty, whether' -constitutionally valid ?-Right to live, whether the provisions of section 302, Penal Code, offends Article 19 of the Constilution-' Distinctiop between "Public order" and "Law and Order''-Whether section 302, Penal Code, violates Article 21, the and Article 6( I) of the lnternatlona_/ Covenant on Civil .and Political Rights as adoPted by the General Assembly of the United Nations and reiterated in the Stockholm Declara­ tion. (B) Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, section 354(3)-1/ section 302, Pertal Code, is constitution(ll,
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