Search Results Page
Search Results
1 - 10 of 16 (1.54 seconds)The Indian Penal Code, 1860
Section 304 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 326 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 34 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 300 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 324 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 135 in Bombay Police Act, 1951 [Entire Act]
Bachan Singh Etc. Etc vs State Of Punjab Etc. Etc on 16 August, 1982
13. The facts of the present case present a very tragic
situation in which for removal of certain ornaments and
other household articles, the appellants have taken the
lives of four persons, which depicts the cruel and callous
personalities of the appellants. But the question which
still remains for consideration is as to whether it will be
just and proper to affirm even the sentences of death passed
against the three appellants, after a lapse of 10 years
since the offence was committed. A Constitution Bench of
this Court in the case of Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab'
held that the death penalty as an alternative punishment is
not unreasonable and it is in public interest, but at the
same time it was pointed out that legislative policy
outlined in Section 354(3) was that for persons convicted
for an offence, where it is open to the court concerned to
impose a sentence of death as well as imprisonment for life,
"life imprisonment is the rule and death sentence an
exception. A real and abiding concern for the dignity of
human life postulates resistance to taking a life through
law's instrumentality. That ought not to be done save in
the rarest of rare cases when the alternative option is
unquestionably foreclosed."