Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 181 · Decided 27 February 2017
Ravada Sasikala v. State of Andhra Pradesh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 181 · [2017] 2 S.C.R. 379
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 406/2017
- Decided
- 27 February 2017
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 326, 448; CrPC
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 326 and 448 - Acid attack on a young girl by the boy trespassing into the girl's house - Due to non acceptance of boy's proposal for marriage - Dis.figuration of some part of the body due to acid attack - Conviction of the boy ulss. 326 and 448 and sentenced to one year RI to the period already undergone, that is 30 days - On appeal, held: Acid attack on a young girl is an uncivilized and heartless crime committed by the accused - Crime of this nature does not deserve any kind of clemency - There is medical evidence that there was an acid attack on the young
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