Supreme Court · 1981 INSC 70 · Decided 17 March 1981
Suresh v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1981 INSC 70 · [1981] 3 S.C.R. 259
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 281/1978
- Decided
- 17 March 1981
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, A.P. SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307; CrPC Section 235(2)
Headnote
v. STATE OF U.P. March 17, 1981 ( Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, C. J. AND A.P. SEN, J.) Sentence of death-Whether death sentence is called for has to be examined in each case with dispassionate care-Penal Code, section 302. Evidence-Trustworthiness of a witness, a child of five years, examined with­ evidence. The appellant, a starving youth was given shelter by a kindly couple by engaging him as a domestic servant. The reward of that kindness was the murder of the lady cf the house and her three year old son and causing serious injury to her five year old son. The appellant was,
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