Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 652 · Decided 24 June 2022
Manoj Pratap Singh v. The State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 652 · [2022] 16 S.C.R. 743
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 910/2022
- Decided
- 24 June 2022
- Bench
- A.M. KHANWILKAR, DINESH MAHESHWARI, C.T. RAVIKUMAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 379, 307, 363, 365, 376(2)(f); CrPC Section 235, 354
Headnote
Sentence / Sentencing - Death Sentence - Rarest of Rare case - Kidnapping, rape and murder of a seven-and-a-half-year old mentally and physically challenged girl - Case of circumstantial evidence - Trial Court found appellant-accused guilty and imposed IPC - High Court found it to be a 'rarest of rare case' and upheld the conviction and death sentence - Appeal before the Supreme Court on two issues - First, whether concurrent findings of fact required interference - Second, whether death sentence be
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