Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 105 · Decided 4 May 1979
Dalbir Singh & ORS. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 105 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 1059
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 12/1979
- Decided
- 4 May 1979
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, D.A. DESAI, A.P. SEN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 235(2); Constitution Article 141
Headnote
Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860), S. 302 & Criminal Procedure Code 1973 '(2 of 1974), S. 354(3)-lmposition of death penalty-Court enjoined with -duty to record 'special reasons for awarding extren1e penalty-NaJure of the -crime whether the sole determinant of the punishment. A Constitution of of. There was 0t dispute between the appellants and the complainant's party ,over the 'turns of water' for irrigation of their agricultural ]ands. The dispute was settled by a patchwork mediation but it was of no avail. On the fate4 fol day, the complla·inant's party were
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