petitions only to get the petition admitted. The
issue of jurisdiction is rarely involved. The
perversity of an order can be argued in respect ... express provision of law. Even
where inherent power is exercised in a rare case, there could be no
stay of trial in a corruption case
exercised sparingly, with
circumspection and in the rarest of rare cases. It is submitted that it
cannot be disputed that accused cannot approach the High ... submitted that
only in an exceptional case and rarest of rare case, the powers to quash
the FIR are required to be exercised sparingly
during investigation can be stayed by this Court only in rarest of rare cases as observed in Satyapal v. State ... been held that arrest should be stayed only in rarest of rare cases and not as a matter of routine, observing that
High Court is not justified, as no case of rarest of the
rare is made out.
3. The case of the prosecution is that ... present case can be termed to be a rarest of the rare
case.
24. Guidelines emerged from Bachan Singh vs. State of Punjab
instrumentality. That ought not to be done save in the
rarest of rare cases when the alternative option is
unquestionably foreclosed."
(Emphasis added ... Bachan Singh principle of `rarest of rare cases' came up for
consideration and elaboration in the case of Machhi Singh. It was a case
women extent of
corroboration needed--Notion that except in rarest of rare
cases, the evidence of the prosecutrix cannot be accepted
unless corroborated in material ... must ordinarily be corroborated in
material particulars except in the rarest of rare cases.
[123C-D; 124B-C]
Ours is a conservative society where
whether the case falls under the category of rarest of rare
cases warranting capital punishment.
7. We heard Shri. A.K. Talesera, learned counsel appearing ... matter, the
case would not fall under the rarest of rare category warranting capital
punishment.
8. Ms. Aparjita Singh, learned counsel appearing for the respondent
questions posed by
way of the test for the rarest of rare cases, the circumstances of the case are such that
death sentence is warranted ... clearly unsustainable.
39. The case at hand falls in the rarest of rare category. The circumstances
highlighted establish the depraved acts of the accused
crime they had committed falls
within the purview of `rarest of the rare cases'.
It was urged that Sanjeeb Kumar Roy (A2) and Santosh ... case in hand can be said to be a `rarest of rare cases'
so as to enable the courts below to award the death
extent of rushing into the category of the “rarest of rare
case.”
It is pertinent to mention that in spite of the onerous duty bestowed ... sole criterion of determining whether a case falls under the “rarest of
rare” categories.
11) In Panchhi & Ors. vs. State
