Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 851 · Decided 1 August 2019
Manoharan v. State BY Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 851 · [2019] 18 S.C.R. 1007
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1174/2019
- Decided
- 1 August 2019
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, SANJIV KHANNA, SURYA KANT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376, 201; CrPC Section 164, 432, 433; Constitution Article 72, 161
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 376 and 201 - Murder - Rape - Co-accused (now deceased) using borrowed school van, picked up a 10-year old girl and her 7-year old brother who were waiting to go to school - He thereafter picked up his house - Girl child was raped and sodomised - Both children were administered poison (cow dung powder) mixed in milk - However, they spat out the substance and only ingested a small portion - Since poisoning did not work, the children were thrown into a nearby canal,
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