Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 58 · Decided 25 January 2010
Vikram Singh & ORS. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 58 · [2010] 2 S.C.R. 22
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1396/2008
- Decided
- 25 January 2010
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, J.M. PANCHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act Section 27
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: c ss. 302, 364A, 201 and 120-8 - Kidnapping for ransom - Poisoning young boy to death - Conviction ulss. 302, 364A, 201 and 120-8 and award of death sentence by courts below - Propriety of - Held: Kidnapping must be dealt with in the harshest possible manner and obligation rests boy was not only kidnapped for ransom but was murdered in the process - Eye witness to the kidnapping by two accused - Witnesses not chance witnesses - Medical evidence that the cause of death was over dose of chloroform and pentazocine - Evidence to the effect that conspiracy hatched between
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