Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 58 · Decided 18 January 2019
Nand Kishore v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 58 · [2019] 1 S.C.R. 260
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 94/2019
- Decided
- 18 January 2019
- Bench
- S.A. BOBDE, L. NAGESWARA RAO, R. SUBHASH REDDY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 363, 366, 376(2)(i); CrPC Section 354(3)
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing - Death sentence - Award of - On facts, rape and murder of a minor girl by appellant aged 50 years - Conviction of the appellant u/ss.302, 363, 366 and 376(2)(i) and award of death sentence on basis of the circumstantial evidence - Upheld below - On appeal, held: By applying the 'last seen' theory to the facts of the case and considering the forensic and medical evidence on record, courts below rightly convicted the appellant - As regards imposition of death sentence, it is the appellant's case that he
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