Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 573 · Decided 17 December 1999
Manohar Lal @ Munna and ANR. v. The State (N.C.T. of Delhi)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 573 · [1999] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 506
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 630/1999
- Decided
- 17 December 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, D.P. MOHAPATRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 396, 149
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 302, 396 and 149-Death Sentence-Persons set ablaze in C mob fury-Temporary frenzy-No systematic or organised activity-No special or personal animosity of accused persons towards deceased individually-­ Held, under the facts and circumstances death sentence altered in D . statement to police by mother-Horrendous episode-sons were set ablaze · before mother in mob fury-Mothe': not having retained mental equanimity­ Held, cryptic statement of mother cannot be used to discredit the testimony of the most natural eye-witness. Appellants-accused
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