Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 270 · Decided 18 April 2013
Sahib Hussain @ Sahib Jan v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 270 · [2013] 2 S.C.R. 1019
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2083/2008
- Decided
- 18 April 2013
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, M.Y. EQBAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 313
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: A B s.302- Accused committing 5 murders including of three C children - Circumstantial evidence - Held: The deaths established as homicidal in nature, evidence of witnesses, extra-judicial confession, absconding of accused, his conduct at the time of his a"est, recoveries of to disclosure statement, the motive and the 0 statement of accused u/s 313 CrPC, all connect him to the crime and establish his guilt - Judgment of High Court affirming the conviction and commuting the death sentence to imprisonment for 20 years with a further direction that accused be not
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