Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 183 · Decided 26 September 1977
Sarveshwar Prasad Sharma v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 183 · [1978] 1 S.C.R. 560
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 342/1971
- Decided
- 26 September 1977
- Bench
- P.K. GOSWAMI, JASWANT SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Sentence-Sentence of death, special reasons as req11ired under s. 354(3) of the Crbninal Procedure Code (Act II of 1974), 1973 recorded by tile Sessions and the High Cottrt-lnterference by the Suprenie Court under Art. 136 only in special cases. The appellant, a qualified medical practitioner, was wife, aged parents, two sons and three daughters of the age of16, 13, 8, 5 and 3 respectively, entirely on circun1stantial evidence and was sentenced to death. The entire family was exterminated due to greed for cash. ornaments and other valuables. The Sessions and the Htgh Court gave convincing
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