Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 228 · Decided 12 May 1998
Mohan and Others v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 228 · [1998] 3 S.C.R. 317
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1234/1997
- Decided
- 12 May 1998
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, G.B. PATTANAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 30; CrPC Section 345(3)
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860-Sections 30:4, 365 & 364-A-Death Sentence- ~ Rarest of rare cases-Whether in a given case death penalty be imposed or not-Factors to be considered-Held, may be awarded where the court finds that the murder has been committed in a premeditated and calculated manner C with Code, 1973, Section 345(3)-Penology. The accused persons entered into a conspiracy to get ransom from the father of the deceased by kidnapping the deceased, a young boy of IO years. D In accordance with the plan, A-4, driver the father of the deceased, went to ,, the school where the deceased
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