Supreme Court of India
Veerendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the ratio laid down in Swamy Shraddananda (supra) that a special category of sentence; instead of death can be substituted by the punishment of imprisonment for life or for a term exceeding 14 years and put that category beyond application of remission is well-founded and we answer the said question in the affirmative.
Judgment, page 50
From the headnote
Penal Code, 1860 – ss. 376A, 376 (2)(i), 302 – POCSO Act – s. 6 – Rape and murder of a minor girl – Prosecution case that appellant-accused had raped and throttled to cause death of victim, who was daughter of appellant’s cousin sister – While in custody during interrogation, the appellant made disclosure statement and thereafter, at his instance, the victim’s corpse concealed underneath gunny bags, was recovered – The post-mortem and the forensic science laboratory (FSL) reports revealed commission of rape in a diabolically and gruesome manner and causing of death by throttling – Trial Court…
Authorities it was built on
- 2008 Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra v. State of Karnataka
- 2006 Trimukh Maroti Kirkan v. State of Maharashtra
- 2015 Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Ors.
- 2014 Mohd. Arif @ashfaq v. He Registrar, Supreme Court of India & Ors.
- 2006 State of Rajasthan v. Kashi Ram
- 2000 State of West Bengal v. Mir Mohammad Omar and Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 2018 Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik v. State of Maharashtra
- 1999 State of Haryana v. Bhagirath and Ors.
- 2015 Nizam & Anr. v. State of Rajasthan
- 2013 R. Shaji v. State of Kerala.
- 2011 Md. Mannan @ Abdul Mannan v. State of Bihar
- 1999 Sukhar v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- 2012 Govindaraju@ Govinda v. State by Sriramapuram P.S. & Anr.
- 1991 Jaharlal Das v. State of Orissa
- 2018 Khurshid Ahmed v. State of Jammu and Kashmir
- 2012 Pudhu Raja & Anr. v. State, Rep. by Inspector of Police
- 2019 Pattu Rajan v. The State of Tamil Nadu
- 2003 Chanakya Dhibar (dead) v. State of West Bengal and Ors.
- 1987 Kansa Behera v. State of Orissa
- 2009 State of West Bengal v. Dipak Halder & Anr.
Where later benches applied it
- 2025 Kattavellai @ Devakar v. State of Tamilnadu
- 2025 Gyanendra Singh @ Raja Singh v. State of U.P.
- 2024 Sambhubhai Raisangbhai Padhiyar v. The State of Gujarat
Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned
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