Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 947 · Decided 9 December 2024
State of Maharashtra & ORS. v. Pradeep Yashwant Kokade & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 947 · [2024] 12 S.C.R. 574
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2831/2023
- Decided
- 9 December 2024
- Bench
- ABHAY S. OKA, AHSANUDDIN AMANULLAH, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 413, 414; Constitution Article 21, 32, 226, 72, 161
Headnote
Effect of delay in executing the death sentence. Sentence - Death sentence - Inordinate, unexplained delay in execution of - Delay in processing, disposal of mercy petitions and issue of warrant of execution of the High Court commuted the death sentence of the convicts to thirty-five years of imprisonment holding that there was an undue and avoidable delay in executing the death sentence - Challenge to: Held: Impugned judgment upheld - An inordinate and unexplained delay caused by circumstances
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