Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 406 · Decided 2 July 2013
Vikram Singh@ Vicky & ANR. v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 406 · [2013] 8 S.C.R. 1090
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 824/2013
- Decided
- 2 July 2013
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Matter referred to larger bench
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 364A, 302; Constitution Article 21, 14
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 364A - Constitutional validity of C - Challenged by appellants-convicts on the ground that inasmuch as the same prescribes death sentence for a case of kidnapping for ransom, the same is so harsh as to make it . unreasonable and unfair hence violative of Article 21 of referred to larger Bench in view of the o peculiar fact situation in which the instant case arose and the grounds on which provisions of s. 364A were assailed - Constitution of India, 1950 - Article 21. The appellants were sentenced to death by hanging E both under Section 302 and 364A of IPC by
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