Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 364 · Decided 31 July 2000
Ram Deo Chauhan Alias Raj Nath Chauhan v. State of Assam
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 364 · [2000] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 28
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 4/2000
- Decided
- 31 July 2000
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 326; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Indian Penal Code 1860 : Section 302. Murder-Circumstantial evidence-Conviction based on-Imposition of death penalty-Legality of Death Penalty-Accused-Quadruple murder of four members of a fam­ ily including a child and two women-Murders committed after previous plan­ ning and in the most at the time of commission of offence-Confession D of accused duly proved-Sentence of death imposed by Trial Court and af­ firmed by High Court-Appeal before Supreme Court-Held the case of the accused falls under rarest of the rare category-Hence infliction of death penalty was called for-Award
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