Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 1112 · Decided 28 November 2018
Chhannu Lal Verma v. The State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 1112 · [2018] 14 S.C.R. 355
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1482/2018
- Decided
- 28 November 2018
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, DEEPAK GUPTA, HEMANT GUPTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307, 506(2), 450, 376; Constitution
Headnote
Administration of Criminal Justice - Capital punishment - Commutation of - Appellant allegedly murdered three persons and caused grievous injuries to others - Sessions Court convicted the appellant u/ss. 302, 307, 506 (2) and 450, IPC - High Court confirmed the On appeal, held: High Court erroneously confirmed the death penalty - No evidence as to the uncommon nature of the offence or the improbability of reformation or rehabilitation of the appellant was adduced - Death penalty is to be awarded only in the rarest of rare cases where life
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