Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 572 · Decided 17 December 1999
Kishori v. State (Nct) of Delhi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 572 · [1999] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 494
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1376/1999
- Decided
- 17 December 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, D.P. MOHAPATRA (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC
Headnote
Penal Code, 1872' : c Sections 302 & 149-Death in mob violence-Deceased persons dragged from their house and hacked to death-Eye witness deposing accused involved in hacking-Accused awarded death sentence-Challenged -Held, member of group loses one's self and normal standard or sense of of collective fury and not the outcome of · D systematic or organised activity-Temporary frenzy-Cannot be classified as "rarest of rare cases"-Death sentence reduced to life imprisonment. Prosecution charged and tr.ied six persons including appellant for mercilessly killing
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