LAWS(SC)-2012-8-45

STATE OF U P Vs. SANJAY KUMAR

Decided On August 21, 2012
STATE OF U P Appellant
V/S
SANJAY KUMAR Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Delay condoned.

(2.) This petition has been filed against the impugned judgment and Order dated 8.2.2012 passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad in Criminal Appeal (Capital Case) No. 7760 of 2009, by which the High Court has commuted the death sentence awarded to the respondent by the Sessions Court, in life imprisonment upon recording its conclusion that it was not among the 'rarest of rare cases , in which death penalty could be awarded.

(3.) Facts and circumstances giving rise to this petition are as follows: