Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 606 · Decided 20 May 2022
Manoj & Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 606 · [2022] 9 S.C.R. 452
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 248/2015
- Decided
- 20 May 2022
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, S. RAVINDRA BHAT, BELA M. TRIVEDI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 397; CrPC Section 235(2), 24, 172, 173; Evidence Act; Constitution Article 20, 21; Arms Act Section 27
Headnote
Sentence / Sentencing - Penal Code, 1860 - ss.302, 397 - Triple murder, in course of robbery - Three accused - Trial Court convicted the accused-appellants u/s. 302 IPC and imposed death penalty on them - High Court confirmed the conviction - trial Court and High Court failed to provide an effective sentencing hearing to the accused at the relevant stage which is a right u/s 235(2) CrPC - The crime that the appellants were held guilty of, was heinous, and its execution was vicious and cruel - The repeated stabbings of two
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