Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 65 · Decided 2 April 1973
Neti Sreeramulu v. State of Andhra Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 65 · [1973] 3 S.C.R. 844
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 50/1973
- Decided
- 2 April 1973
- Bench
- I.D. DUA, KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 357
Headnote
v. STATE OF ANDHRA PRADESH April 2, 1973 [K. K, MATHEW AND J. D. DUA, JJ.J Indian Pane! Code, s. 302-Accused convicted for murder-Whether ientence .to be reduced from death to life imprisonment. Appellant, aged 20, was convicted and sentenced to death for murder­ ing hJS wife on that the sentence should be reduced to Iife imprisonment because, the appellant was a young man of 20 years of age, the iilcident arose out of sexual jealousy and the crime was not pre-meditated'. The High Court did not consider these circumstances to be sufficient to merit a lesser sentence. Jn
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