Supreme Court · 1987 INSC 86 · Decided 27 March 1987
Mahesh S/O. Ram Narain ETC. v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1987 INSC 86 · [1987] 2 S.C.R. 710
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 285/1986
- Decided
- 27 March 1987
- Bench
- V. KHALID, G.L. OZA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302
Headnote
Indian Penal Code, 1860: s. 302-Murder of five persons-Root cause-Marriage of a lady of High Caste to Harijan boy-High Court holding act of accused extremely brutal, gruesome and shocking to ~ • judicial conscience-Death sentence given-Confirmed by Supreme c Court. ·~ - Criminal Trial. and ghastly murders. The prosecution alleged that the appellants-father and son, bad committed the murder of five innocent persons. The root cause of the crime was said to be that one of the daughters of the deceased bad taken a Harijan as her husband, and for that the appellants were treating E
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