Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 222 · Decided 21 April 2005
Saibanna v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 222 · [2005] 3 S.C.R. 760
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 656/2004
- Decided
- 21 April 2005
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, B.N. SRIKRISHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 235(2), 427(2)
Headnote
v. ST A TE OF KARNA T AKA APRIL 21, 2005 B [K.G. BALAKRISHNAN AND B.N. SRIKRISHNA,JJ.] Pena! Code, 1860-Section 302-Pre-planned brutal murder without provocation-"Rarest of rare case"-Death sentence-Accused-appellant was already convicted to life imprisonment for murder of his first of death sentence by Courts below after convicting appellant under Section 302-Justification of-Held: Justified­ Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Sections 235(2) r/w 354(3) and 427 (2). D According to prosecution the appellant murdered his second wife and minor daughter of 1 Yz years
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