Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 115 · Decided 18 March 1999
Nirmal Singh and ANR. v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 115 · [1999] 2 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 46/1999
- Decided
- 18 March 1999
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860 : Sections 302134-Murder-Punishment-Death Sentence-Rarest of rare cases-Individual role played by the accused persons-Considerations C of-Murder of 5 members of a family of a witness whose evidence was responsible for the conviction of accused D in a prior rape case-Accused D face dire consequences-Accused D killing all the five persons of the family by means of a kulhari-Nature of injuries D indicated that the act of accused D was an act of depraved mind and was most brutal and heinous in nature-Held, the act of accused D fell within the ambit of rarest of rare cases
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