Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 453 · Decided 28 September 2005
Gurmeet Singh v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 453 · [2005] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 651
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1371/2004
- Decided
- 28 September 2005
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, ARUN KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Penal Code, 1870: Section 302-Murder-Death sentence-Commutation of death sentence c to life imprisonment-Accused came with swords and started shouting and indiscriminately attacked and killed thirteen members of his family who were asleep at various places in his farmhouse-It was a moonlit Judges who constituted the Bench hearing the D appeal-One Judge was for dismissal of the appeal and maintaining conviction and the death sentence while the other was for acquittal of the accused- The matter was referred to a third Judge who ultimately upheld the conviction and sentence-What
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