Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1043 · Decided 25 August 2025
Vasanta Sampat Dupare v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1043 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 2136
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 371/2023
- Decided
- 25 August 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 363, 367, 376(2)(f), 302, 201; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Writ petition filed u/Art.32 challenging the continuing validity of the sentence of death against the petitioner, having been affirmed on appeal, declined in review, and followed by the rejection of mercy petitions and seeks its reconsideration in the light in the case of Manoj and others v. State of Madhya Pradesh; and whether Art.32 authorises this Court to reopen a capital sentencing exercise that has otherwise attained finality, solely to cure the procedural lapse the petitioner identifies. Constitution of India -
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