Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 229 · Decided 20 February 2019
Dnyaneshwar Suresh Borkar v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 229 · [2019] 4 S.C.R. 863
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1411/2018
- Decided
- 20 February 2019
- Bench
- A.K. SIKRI, S. ABDUL NAZEER, M.R. SHAH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing: Death sentence - For killing a minor child - Held: The offence committed was brutal, but did not warrant death sentence as the accused was not a previous convict or a professional killer - At the time of commission of offence, he was 22 years of age - - Mitigating circumstances being in favour of the appellant, in the interest of justice, death sentence is commuted to life imprisonment. Partly allowing the appeal, the Court HELD: Striking the balance between the aggravating and mitigating circumstances, mitigating circumstances are in
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