Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1216 · Decided 7 November 2019
H Manoharan v. State BY Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore (Review Petition (CRL.) NOS.446-447 of 2019) in
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1216 · [2019] 18 S.C.R. 1078
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1174/2019
- Decided
- 7 November 2019
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, SANJIV KHANNA, SURYA KANT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376(2)(f); CrPC Section 163, 164; Evidence Act Section 106, 24; Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Review - In death penalty cases - Application of restrictive principles - Murder - Rape - Co-accused (now deceased) using borrowed school van, picked up a 10-year 7-year old brother who were waiting to go to school - He thereafter picked up his friend (accused-petitioner) from his house - Girl child was raped and sodomised - Both children were administered poison (cow dung powder) mixed in milk - However, they spat out the substance
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