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Can a third judge under Section 392 CrPC reopen findings both Division Bench judges agreed upon?
Dr. Rakesh Kumar Gupta vs. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. (with State of Uttar Pradesh vs. Anil Rastogi & Ors.)
The Supreme Court referred to a larger Bench the question of whether a third judge under Section 392 CrPC 1973 can overturn unanimous findings of both Division Bench judges on accused persons not in dispute, disagreeing with Sajjan Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh (1999).
Can a mother's sole eyewitness testimony sustain a death sentence in a child rape-murder case?
Waris vs The State of Madhya Pradesh
The Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of a stepfather convicted of raping and throttling to death his six-year-old stepdaughter, finding the mother's eyewitness testimony reliable and corroborated by medical and objective evidence.
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