Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 590 · Decided 13 December 2012
Sandesh Alias Sainath Kailash Abhang v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 590 · [2012] 13 S.C.R. 1049
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1973/2011
- Decided
- 13 December 2012
- Bench
- SWATANTER KUMAR, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307, 394, 376(e), 397; CrPC Section 354(3); Arms Act Section 25
Headnote
A B Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 302, 307, 394 and 376 (e) - Robbery with murder, attempt to cause death, causing hurt and committing rape of pregnant woman - Injured eye-witness C - Extra-judicial confession - Conviction by courts below and death sentence - On appeal, accused not challenging to commute the death sentence - Held: The evidence established the prosecution case beyond reasonable doubt - The accused committed cold-blooded D murder and his conduct was that of a brutal person - Therefore, his conviction is confirmed - However, the courts below failed to consider the
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