Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 10 · Decided 16 February 1983
T. V. Vatheeswaran v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 10 · [1983] 2 S.C.R. 348
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 75/1983
- Decided
- 16 February 1983
- Bench
- O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, R.B. MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Constitution of India-Art. 21-Pr/soner sentenced to death-Detention awaiting execution-Detention exceeding two years violative of guarantee of fair p'rocedure under Art. 21. The appellant was sentenced to death in January, 1975 on a charge of committing wicked and diabolic murders and been a 'prisoner under remand' for two years. The appellant's contention was that to take away his life after keeping him in jail for ten years, eight of which in illegal solitary confinement, woukl be violative of Art. 21. Allowing the appeal and converting the sentence of death to one of
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