Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 65 · Decided 24 January 2011
Rameshbhai Chandubhai Rathod v. The State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 65 · [2011] 1 S.C.R. 829
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 575/2007
- Decided
- 24 January 2011
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, P. SATHASIVAM, C.K. PRASAD (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 235, 354(3); Constitution
Headnote
829 RAMESHBHAI CHANDUBHAI RATHOD v. THE STATE OF GUJARAT (Criminal Appeal No. 575 of 2007) JANUARY 24, 2011 [HARJIT SINGH BEDI, P. SATHASIVAM AND CHANDRAMAULI KR. PRASAD, .JJ.] A B Sentence/Sentencing: Death sentence or life imprisonment - In case of rape and murder of young girl of C tender age child of_Jender age and the appellant, being a watchman in the building in which she was residing was in a D position of trust, and as the murder and rape was particularly brutal, the death sentence was the only adequate one - Ganguli, J. differed on this aspect and held that a sentence of
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