Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 42 · Decided 16 January 2007
Bishnu Prasad Sinha & ANR. v. State of Assam
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 42 · [2007] 1 S.C.R. 916
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 453/2006
- Decided
- 16 January 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376(2)(g), 302, 201134, 34; CrPC Section 313, 164; Evidence Act Section 8, 30
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: Sections 376(2)(g), 302 and 201134. Rape and murder-No eyewitnesses-Circumstantial evidence­ Conviction based upon-Punishment of death sentence-Permissibility of-The deceased, a young girl aged 7 to 8 years, was travelling with her parents and younger brother in a private in the waiting room of the travel complex for the night-At that time a bus arrived at the said Travel Comp/ex-Accused No. 2 was the 'handyman' of the said bus-While the Manager, Driver and the Conductor slept in the said bus, he did not-He was seen talking with the accused No. I-The mother of the
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