Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 101 · Decided 28 March 1977
Shaik Abdul Azeez v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 101 · [1977] 3 S.C.R. 393
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 592/1976
- Decided
- 28 March 1977
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.K. GOSWAMI, P.N. SHINGAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 303, 302; CrPC Section 401, 402
Headnote
Pencd Code (Act 45 of 1860), 1860, section 303-Death Sentence for murder by life convici-Whether a p·erson sent,enced to imprisonment for life and later released by the Government by remission of sentence uls. 401 of the Cr. P.C., .1898 (1973 Code, s. 432) continues to "being under sec. 401 (1973 Code, section 432)-Scope of. A B Section 303 I.P.C. lays down that "whoever being under sentence of im­ ,prisonment for life commits murder shall be punislied with death". The C appellant, for the offence of murder committed on December 3, 1959, had been convicted
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)