Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 247 · Decided 2 May 2001
Raju v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 247 · [2001] 3 S.C.R. 409
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 581/2000
- Decided
- 2 May 2001
- Bench
- M.B. SHAH, BRIJESH KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376, 363; CrPC Section 366
Headnote
B ...,. ' Indian Penal Code-Sections 302 and 376-Death Penalty-Justification i of-Accused raped and thereafter committed murder of an 11 year old girl- Accused admitted that he had committed murder as the girl threatened to disclose the incident to her family-Accused not a habitual criminal-Held, of offences under Sections, ' 302, 376 and 363 of the Indian Penal Code. The prosecution stQry was that on 5.1.1997, the deceased, an eleven-year-old girl, had gone out to fetch milk D at about 6 p.m. PW2 saw the Appellant offering toffees to the deceased and, other children. Thereafter, the
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