Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1116 · Decided 3 October 2019
Ravishankar @ Baba Vishwakarma v. The State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1116 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 285
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1523/2019
- Decided
- 3 October 2019
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, R. SUBHASH REDDY, SURYA KANT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 363, 366, 376(2)(m), 376(2)(n), 376, 376A
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing: Rape/murder of minor - Conviction based on circumstantial evidence - Imposition of death sentence - Held: There is no absolute principle of law that no death sentence can be awarded in a case where conviction is based Such a standard would be ripe for abuse by seasoned criminals who always make sure to destroy direct evidence - Further, in many cases of rape and murder of children, the victims owing to their tender age can put up no resistance - In such cases, it is extremely likely that there
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