Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 806 · Decided 1 September 2023
Harendra Rai v. The State of Bihar and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 806 · [2023] 11 S.C.R. 583
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1726/2015
- Decided
- 1 September 2023
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, ABHAY S. OKA, VIKRAM NATH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307; CrPC Section 357(c), 357A, 357
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: In a murder case, the acquittal of respondent no.2 recorded by Trial Court and the High Court having been reversed and respondent no.2 having being convicted u/ss.302 and 307 IPC by the Supreme Court by an earlier judgment, now the issue for consideration was the no.2. Sentence / Sentencing - Murder - Conviction vide earlier judgment ([2023] 11 S.C.R. 403) - Death sentence not appropriate on facts, and as such imprisonment for life awarded alongwith fi ne - However, fi ne awarded to be paid as damages - Also,
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