Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 236 · Decided 11 May 1999
Jai Kumar v. State of M.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 236 · [1999] 3 S.C.R. 426
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 548/1999
- Decided
- 11 May 1999
- Bench
- A.S. ANAND, M. SRINIVASAN, U.C. BANERJEE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 354(3), 235(2)
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860-Section 302 read with Section 201- Appellant murdering his pregnant sister-in-law aged 30 years-When faced C with resistance while attempting to rape her, severed her head from the body-Thereafter hanging her hand being tied on a branch with hair and putting the body on the to the gruesome murder of her mother-Mother of the accused giving evidence about the bad character and the reputation D of the accused in the locality-Award of death sentence by the Sessions Judge and confirmed by the Division Bench of the High Court-Appeal against-Held, the facts established the
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