Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 657 · Decided 27 September 2013
State of Rajasthan v. Jamil Khan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 657 · [2013] 14 S.C.R. 361
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 659/2006
- Decided
- 27 September 2013
- Bench
- C.K. PRASAD, KURIAN JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376, 201; CrPC Section 432, 433
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss. 302, 376 and 201 - Rape and murder of a minor child below 5 years - By 19 year old man - Conviction and death sentence by trial court - High Court confirmed the conviction but altered the death sentence to life imprisonment - Held: A B c The crime is of extreme mental - Having regard to the nature of the crime, manner of commission of offence, and major aggravating factor of extreme repulsion which has shocked the collective conscience of the community and the court, and the sole mitigating factor of his young age, punishment of life E imprisonment is
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