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Indian case law by case name, citation, provision or legal issue, with the case summary, the judgment text where we hold it and the provisions it applies.
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Supreme Court of India4 Sep 2023Full text
2023 INSC 793 · [2023] 11 S.C.R. 1005
was charged with. The Trial Court treated the case as one falling under the category of “rarest of the rare cases” and sentenced the appellant to death. 11. The appellant herein being aggrieved with the judgment and order
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Supreme Court of India29 Apr 2022Full text
2022 INSC 492 · [2022] 8 S.C.R. 1166
all the three persons, we conclude that it is a gravest case of extreme culpability and the
Indian case law by case name, citation, provision or legal issue, with the case summary, the judgment text where we hold it and the provisions it applies.
281–300 · Page 15 of 16
Supreme Court of India4 Sep 2023Full text
2023 INSC 793 · [2023] 11 S.C.R. 1005
was charged with. The Trial Court treated the case as one falling under the category of “rarest of the rare cases” and sentenced the appellant to death. 11. The appellant herein being aggrieved with the judgment and order
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Supreme Court of India29 Apr 2022Full text
2022 INSC 492 · [2022] 8 S.C.R. 1166
all the three persons, we conclude that it is a gravest case of extreme culpability and the
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Supreme Court of India20 Apr 2022Full text
2022 INSC 455 · [2022] 3 S.C.R. 336
quashing a criminal proceeding should be exercised very sparingly and with circumspection and that too in the rarest B of rare cases; that the court will not be justified in embarking upon an enquiry as to the reliability
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Supreme Court of India4 Nov 2022Full text
2022 INSC 1164 · [2022] 12 S.C.R. 1035
for enhancement of the sentence to death as this is a faction fight and certainly not a rarest of the rare case qualifying imposition of death sentence. 173. PW-1 also filed Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 57/2022 under
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Supreme Court of India12 Oct 2022Full text
2022 INSC 1071 · [2022] 15 S.C.R. 692
has been exercised by an investigating officer mala fide. That power is to be exercised in the rarest of the rare case where a clear case of abuse of power and non-compliance with the provisions falling under
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Supreme Court of India8 Nov 2021Full text
2021 INSC 707 · [2021] 11 S.C.R. 51
enormity of the crime and the execution thereof, the Court considered the case as falling in the “rarest of the rare” category, and warranting the sentence of death to deter E others from committing atrocious crimes, and
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Supreme Court of India23 Mar 2021Full text
2021 INSC 203 · [2021] 15 S.C.R. 1
global catastrophe”. It is submitted that the National Plan which is made in November, 2019, envisages such rarest of the rare “global catastrophe risk events”. It is submitted that by its very nature, such a global catastrophe cannot
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Supreme Court of India29 Jul 2019Full text
2019 INSC 822 · [2019] 9 S.C.R. 1175
Ref: Office Order No.4232 dtd.23.11.1987] Provided further that the pension of an employee may be released in rarest of the rare cases by the Chairman of the Board even during pendency of the criminal proceedings against the employee
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Supreme Court of India25 Oct 2018Full text
2018 INSC 997 · [2018] 12 S.C.R. 622
may be highly disproportionately inadequate. The Court may find that a case falls short of the rarest of the rare category. But at the same time, having regard to the nature of the crime, the court may strongly
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Supreme Court of India2 Nov 2018Full text
2018 INSC 1039 · [2018] 13 S.C.R. 868
made out. As the power under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is to be exercised carefully, cautiously and in rarest C of rare cases, keeping in mind the law laid down by this Court, the High Court refused to quash
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Supreme Court of India7 Jul 2017Full text
2017 INSC 594 · [2017] 8 S.C.R. 177
and on the broad principle which emerged from the D judgments for evaluating the category of the rarest of the rare case. Various mitigating and aggravated factors which have been noted in the judgment of the High Court
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Supreme Court of India23 Feb 2017Full text
2017 INSC 173 · [2017] 1 S.C.R. 779
adduced; ( c) relevance of overt ad in conviction under Section 149 of the Penal Code; and (d) rarest of the rare cases theory for confirming death sentence. 11. On the first issue, the High Court has observed that
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Supreme Court of India30 Aug 2016Full text
2016 INSC 630 · [2016] 5 S.C.R. 884
otherwise the same will open up a Pandora's box and thus, if at all, in rarest of the rare cases, further scrutiny may be made. While it is true that law courts have overburdened themselves with the
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Supreme Court of India5 Jul 2016Full text
2016 INSC 495 · [2016] 5 S.C.R. 473
the offences and that the provisions enabling convening of an SCM ought to be used in rarest of the rare cases. In her submission an accused should be tried by CO of the parent unit of the accused
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Supreme Court of India26 Feb 2016Full text
2016 INSC 217 · [2016] 1 S.C.R. 913
trial Court as the reasoning of the trial Court does not convince us that this is the rarest of the rare cases which warrants the penalty of death sentence. 22. For the aforesaid reasons, we reach to the
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Supreme Court of India12 Aug 2015Full text
2015 INSC 566 · [2015] 10 S.C.R. 70
age of the accused and on reaching the conclusion F that it is not a case of rarest of the rare cases, the appellant was sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life. The trial court found that accused no.1-Sanjay
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Supreme Court of India20 Sep 2013Full text
2013 INSC 643 · [2013] 11 S.C.R. 212
Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab 1980 (2) sec 684 as being one belonging to the rarest of the rare category. We have, however, to note that as far as the present trial is concerned, the occurrence
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Supreme Court of India7 May 2013Full text
2013 INSC 320 · [2013] 3 S.C.R. 254
circumstances of a particular case, the court has come to the conclusion that it was not "the rarest B of rare cases", warranting death penalty, but a sentence of 14 years or 20 years, as referred
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Supreme Court of India11 Jul 2012Full text
2012 INSC 281 · [2012] 10 S.C.R. 95
sentence, vide order dated 14th September, 2005, finding the offence to be that in the category of rarest of the rare cases, the Trial Court awarded sentence of death to all the accused persons for the offence under
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Supreme Court of India18 Jan 2011Full text
2011 INSC 56 · [2011] 1 S.C.R. 790
the question of the sentence to be awarded and held that the case fell within the rarest of the rare category as four innocent girls between the ages of 1 and 10 and their mother had been murdered
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Supreme Court of India20 Apr 2022Full text
2022 INSC 455 · [2022] 3 S.C.R. 336
quashing a criminal proceeding should be exercised very sparingly and with circumspection and that too in the rarest B of rare cases; that the court will not be justified in embarking upon an enquiry as to the reliability
Matched in judgment text
Supreme Court of India4 Nov 2022Full text
2022 INSC 1164 · [2022] 12 S.C.R. 1035
for enhancement of the sentence to death as this is a faction fight and certainly not a rarest of the rare case qualifying imposition of death sentence. 173. PW-1 also filed Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 57/2022 under
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Supreme Court of India12 Oct 2022Full text
2022 INSC 1071 · [2022] 15 S.C.R. 692
has been exercised by an investigating officer mala fide. That power is to be exercised in the rarest of the rare case where a clear case of abuse of power and non-compliance with the provisions falling under
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Supreme Court of India8 Nov 2021Full text
2021 INSC 707 · [2021] 11 S.C.R. 51
enormity of the crime and the execution thereof, the Court considered the case as falling in the “rarest of the rare” category, and warranting the sentence of death to deter E others from committing atrocious crimes, and
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Supreme Court of India23 Mar 2021Full text
2021 INSC 203 · [2021] 15 S.C.R. 1
global catastrophe”. It is submitted that the National Plan which is made in November, 2019, envisages such rarest of the rare “global catastrophe risk events”. It is submitted that by its very nature, such a global catastrophe cannot
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Supreme Court of India29 Jul 2019Full text
2019 INSC 822 · [2019] 9 S.C.R. 1175
Ref: Office Order No.4232 dtd.23.11.1987] Provided further that the pension of an employee may be released in rarest of the rare cases by the Chairman of the Board even during pendency of the criminal proceedings against the employee
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Supreme Court of India25 Oct 2018Full text
2018 INSC 997 · [2018] 12 S.C.R. 622
may be highly disproportionately inadequate. The Court may find that a case falls short of the rarest of the rare category. But at the same time, having regard to the nature of the crime, the court may strongly
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Supreme Court of India2 Nov 2018Full text
2018 INSC 1039 · [2018] 13 S.C.R. 868
made out. As the power under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is to be exercised carefully, cautiously and in rarest C of rare cases, keeping in mind the law laid down by this Court, the High Court refused to quash
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Supreme Court of India7 Jul 2017Full text
2017 INSC 594 · [2017] 8 S.C.R. 177
and on the broad principle which emerged from the D judgments for evaluating the category of the rarest of the rare case. Various mitigating and aggravated factors which have been noted in the judgment of the High Court
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Supreme Court of India23 Feb 2017Full text
2017 INSC 173 · [2017] 1 S.C.R. 779
adduced; ( c) relevance of overt ad in conviction under Section 149 of the Penal Code; and (d) rarest of the rare cases theory for confirming death sentence. 11. On the first issue, the High Court has observed that
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Supreme Court of India30 Aug 2016Full text
2016 INSC 630 · [2016] 5 S.C.R. 884
otherwise the same will open up a Pandora's box and thus, if at all, in rarest of the rare cases, further scrutiny may be made. While it is true that law courts have overburdened themselves with the
Matched in judgment text
Supreme Court of India5 Jul 2016Full text
2016 INSC 495 · [2016] 5 S.C.R. 473
the offences and that the provisions enabling convening of an SCM ought to be used in rarest of the rare cases. In her submission an accused should be tried by CO of the parent unit of the accused
Matched in judgment text
Supreme Court of India26 Feb 2016Full text
2016 INSC 217 · [2016] 1 S.C.R. 913
trial Court as the reasoning of the trial Court does not convince us that this is the rarest of the rare cases which warrants the penalty of death sentence. 22. For the aforesaid reasons, we reach to the
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Supreme Court of India12 Aug 2015Full text
2015 INSC 566 · [2015] 10 S.C.R. 70
age of the accused and on reaching the conclusion F that it is not a case of rarest of the rare cases, the appellant was sentenced to suffer imprisonment for life. The trial court found that accused no.1-Sanjay
Matched in judgment text
Supreme Court of India20 Sep 2013Full text
2013 INSC 643 · [2013] 11 S.C.R. 212
Bachan Singh v. State of Punjab 1980 (2) sec 684 as being one belonging to the rarest of the rare category. We have, however, to note that as far as the present trial is concerned, the occurrence
Matched in judgment text
Supreme Court of India7 May 2013Full text
2013 INSC 320 · [2013] 3 S.C.R. 254
circumstances of a particular case, the court has come to the conclusion that it was not "the rarest B of rare cases", warranting death penalty, but a sentence of 14 years or 20 years, as referred
Matched in judgment text
Supreme Court of India11 Jul 2012Full text
2012 INSC 281 · [2012] 10 S.C.R. 95
sentence, vide order dated 14th September, 2005, finding the offence to be that in the category of rarest of the rare cases, the Trial Court awarded sentence of death to all the accused persons for the offence under
Matched in judgment text
Supreme Court of India18 Jan 2011Full text
2011 INSC 56 · [2011] 1 S.C.R. 790
the question of the sentence to be awarded and held that the case fell within the rarest of the rare category as four innocent girls between the ages of 1 and 10 and their mother had been murdered
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