Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 27 · Decided 11 February 1974
Ediga Anamma v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 27 · [1974] 3 S.C.R. 329
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 67/1973
- Decided
- 11 February 1974
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. SARKARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 367(5)
Headnote
Cri111i1wl Law-Practice and Pror:edure--Of]ence of 11111rdeJ·--Circu111sta11c,•s justifying lesser sentence. The appellant, a rustic young .woman, flogged out of her husband's house by her father-in-law, was living with her parents with her only child. She committed a premeditated, and the murdered woman for tb.e affections of an illicit lover. The Sessions court awarded the death iiCDtence and the High Court confirmed. C In appeal to this Court. D E F G HELD: The death sentence must be dissolved and life sentence substituted. (i) Modern penology regards crime and
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