Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 553 · Decided 30 August 2010
C. Muniappan & ORS. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 553 · [2010] 10 S.C.R. 262
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 127/2008
- Decided
- 30 August 2010
- Bench
- G.S. SINGHVI, B.S. CHAUHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 188; CrPC Section 195; Evidence Act Section 9
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: c ss. 302, 3021114, 307 and 3071114 - Three of the members of a group of agitators setting ablaze a University bus full of girl-students - Three girls burnt alive to death and several others received burn injuries - HELD: Cowts below rightly convicted and sentenced the three activities were not only barbaric but inhuman to the highest degree - The manner of the commission of the offence is extremely brutal, diabolical, grotesque and cruel - : It is sho_cking to the collective conscience of society - Sentence/Sentencing - Sentence of death - Aggravating and E
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