Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 1033 · Decided 26 November 2014
Vasant Sampat Dupare v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 1033 · [2014] 14 S.C.R. 961
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2486/2014
- Decided
- 26 November 2014
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, R.F. NARIMAN, UDAY UMESH LALIT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 376(2)(f); CrPC Section 313
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.302, 376(2)(f) - Rape and murder of 4 years old minor girl - Conviction based on c circumstantial evidence - Held: The incriminating circumstances clearly established and the chain of. circumstances conclusive in nature to lead to a definite conclusion that by the appellant - The crime was committed in an inhuman manner - The D appalling cruelty shown by him to the minor girl child was extremely shocking and it gets accentuated, when his age is taken into consideration.- The offence was not committed under any mental stress or emotional
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