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Category: Acquittal

Acquittal

Murder—Death Penalty—The conduct of the convict in prison cannot be lost sight of and is a relevant mitigating factor Duty of Court—It is duty of Court to be constitutionally correct even when its view is counter-majoritarian  the public opinion Murder—Death Sentence—Possibility of Reform—Probability and possibility of reform of a criminal can be done properly only through psychological/psychiatric evaluation–Media Trial-It has almost become a trend for the investigating agency to present their version and create a cloud in the collective conscience of the society regarding the crime and the criminal

Jan 13, 2019 sclaw

2018(4) Law Herald (SC) 3078 : 2018 LawHerald.Org 1858 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before Hon’ble Mr. Justice Deepak Gupta Hon’ble Mr. Justice Hemant Gupta Criminal Appeal No(S). 1482-1483…

Acquittal

Murder—Death Sentence—Minor girl raped and murdered—Appellant had no criminal antecedents prior to commission of this crime and his post incarceration conduct suggests the possibility of his reform—Death sentence commuted to life sentence–Though the crime committed of an abominable nature but it cannot be said to be such a brutal, depraved heinous or diabolical nature so as to fall into the category of the rarest of rare cases

Jan 6, 2019 sclaw

2018(4) Law Herald (SC) 3372 : 2018 LawHerald.Org 1943 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before Hon’ble Mr. Justice N.V. Ramana Hon’ble Mr. Justice Mohan M. Shantanagoudar Hon’ble Mr. Justice…

Acquittal

Common Intention –Unless a common intention is established as a matter of necessary inference from the proven circumstances, the accused person will be liable for their individual acts and not for the act done by any other person.Appeal against conviction–Appellant acquitted by trial Court–High Court convicted the appellant–Held, if two reasonable views are possible on the basis of the evidence on record and one favourable to the accused has been taken by the trial court, it ought not to be disturbed by appellate Court–

Jan 5, 2019 sclaw

2009(1) LAW HERALD (SC) 175 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Lokeshwar Singh Panta The Hon’ble Mr. Justice B. Sudershan Reddy Criminal Appeal No. 1657…

Acquittal

Criminal Law –Murder–Circumstantial evidence–Last seen theory–Deceased last seen with accused–Held, The last-seen theory, furthermore, comes into play where the time gap between the point of time when the accused and the deceased were last seen alive and the deceased is found dead is so small that possibility of any person other than the accused being the author of the crime becomes impossible

Jan 5, 2019 sclaw

2009(1) LAW HERALD (SC) 161 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Before The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dr. Arijit Pasayat The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Dr. Mukundakam Sharma Criminal Appeal No.598-599 of…

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