Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 1016 · Decided 9 October 2014
Mofil Khan & ANR. v. State of Jharkhand
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 1016 · [2014] 10 S.C.R. 812
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1795/2009
- Decided
- 9 October 2014
- Bench
- H.L. DATTU, R.K. AGRAWAL, ARUN MISHRA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
SENTENCE/SENTENCING: Murder - Sentencing policy - Held: The most significant aspect of sentencing policy is independent consideration of each case by the Court and extricating a sentence which is the most appropriate and proportional to the culpability of the 0 accused - Aggregating circumstance,s culled out - The doctrine of "rarest 'of rare" does not classify murders into categories of heinous or less heinous - The difference between two is not in the identity of the principles, but lies in the realm of application thereof to E individual fact situations - Sentences of
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