Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 274 · Decided 22 April 2013
Kanhaiya Lal & ORS. v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 274 · [2013] 6 S.C.R. 361
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1108/2006
- Decided
- 22 April 2013
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 460, 148, 427, 342, 149
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 460, 148, 427 and 342 - Murder - By unlawful assembly with a common object - Conviction - Conversion of death sentence into life C imprisonment by High Court - Sustainability - Held: The crime took place because the village Sarpanch suspected that the deceased - All accused persons have almost spent thirteen years in custody - Similarly placed persons have been imposed life sentence D - Regard being had to the totality of the circumstances, it cannot be said that imprisonment for life was inadequate and the circumstances so grave that it calls for a
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)