Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 124 · Decided 14 February 2011
Budhadev Karmaskar v. State of West Bengal
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 124 · [2011] 2 S.C.R. 925
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 135/2010
- Decided
- 14 February 2011
- Bench
- MARKANDEY KATJU, GYAN SUDHA MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Hearing Adjourned
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Constitution Article 21
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - s. 302 - Brutal murder of a sex worker - Conviction and sentence u/s. 302, by the courts below - Justification of - Held: Justified - Injuries show C brutality of the crime - Head of the deceased was battered again and again in a hideous and barbaric manner - Testimony of evidence - Accused having committed murder in a brutal manner of a helpless woman, deserves no sympathy - Thus, D order of conviction upheld - Crime against women. Constitution of India, 1950 - Article 21 - Sex workers/ prostitutes - Right to live with dignity under Article 21 - Held: Sex
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