Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 899 · Decided 7 September 2007
Des Raj v. Sta Te of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 899 · [2007] 9 S.C.R. 774
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 648/2007
- Decided
- 7 September 2007
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, B. SUDERSHAN REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 302
Headnote
) v. STA TE OF PUNJAB SEPTEMBER 7, 2007 B [R. V. RA VEENDRAN AND B. SUDERSHAN REDDY,JJ.) Sentence/Sentencing-Murder-Over a petty dispute retired police -f constable opening fire, resulting in death of three neighbours-Award of c death sentence-Justification of-Held: Murder committed not to and mitigating circumstances, inspite of gravity of crime, aggravating circumstances did not overwhelmingly outweigh mitigating circumstances-Thus, no/ a rarest of rare case-Death penalty D modified to one of life imprisonment - Penal Code, 1860. According to the prosecution, there was a
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