Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 144 · Decided 6 May 1976
Subhash & Another v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 144 · [1976] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 587
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 420/1974
- Decided
- 6 May 1976
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, R.S. SARKARIA, P.N. SHINGAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 375, 376
Headnote
CoJe of Crin1itl[;./ Procedure, S. 314-Referen€e far c£>nfirmatlon of deatli sentence, wheth~r High Court obliged to examine entire evidence independently. Ram Sanehi received tv.ro gun-shot v;ounds on his chest, and died' within ten minutes. Tw·o of hi> children claimed to only after about 24 hours had elapsed. The same evenine. appellant Subhash surrendered, and appellant Sbyam Narain B \\.·as arrested, though for another offence altogether. The Sessions Court con- C victed ttem under s. 302 I.P.C. and sentenced Subhash to death and Shyam Narain to
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