Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 225 · Decided 30 November 1977
Srirangan v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 225 · [1978] 2 S.C.R. 270
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 470/1977
- Decided
- 30 November 1977
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, N.L. UNTWALIA, P.S. KAILASAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 84, 302; CrPC Section 254(3)
Headnote
Sentence-Choice between life term and death penalty in awardiJJR sentence-Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (Act II of 1974). Section 354(3), scope of. , Tbe appellant young in age and a mental case was prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to death for the offence of triple murders, since the testimony in s. 84, I.P.C. The appeal before the High Court having failed, this Court granted Special leave confined to the question of sentence. Maintaining the conviction but modifying the death sentence to one of life imprisonment, the court, HELD : In this agonisingly sensitive area of sentencing,
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