Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 143 · Decided 15 February 2007
Ram Singh v. Sonia and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 143 · [2007] 2 S.C.R. 651
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 895/2005
- Decided
- 15 February 2007
- Bench
- B.N. AGRAWAL, P.P. NAOLEKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 164, 463, 164(2); Evidence Act Section 26
Headnote
B Penal Code, 1860: Section 302 rlw Sections 34 and 120-B. Murder-'Rarest of rare' cases-Death sentence-Imposition of­ Justification-Extrajudicial confession-Circumstantial evidence-Accused C A-1 (daughter) along with her husband accused A-2 had not only murdered her step brother and his whole mother, sister and sister-in-law while they were sleeping so as to prevent her father from giving the property to her step brother and his family-Trial court convicted the D accused persons on the basis of confession and circumstantial evidence and imposed sentence of death on them-However, High
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