Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 520 · Decided 17 August 2010
State NCT of Delhi v. Ajit Seth @ Ajji
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 520 · [2010] 10 S.C.R. 343
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1059/2004
- Decided
- 17 August 2010
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, C.K. PRASAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 364; CrPC Section 366
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A B c ss. 302 and 364 - Two children aged 3 and 7, burnt to death by friend of their mother - Conviction by trial court with death sentence - High Court commuted the sentence and directed that accused should not be released unless he had served at least 20 years of imprisonment - The Court endorses the finding of the trial court that crime committed by the accused was indeed barbaric and called for no mercy - But in view of the facts that pending appeal the accused has already completed his sentence of 20 years and has been released, it would be a complete travesty of
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