MANOHARAN Vs. STATE BY INSPECTOR OF POLICE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These review petitions are directed against the judgment dated 01.08.2019 passed in Manoharan v. State by Inspector of Police, 2019 7 SCC 716 , wherein this three-Judge Bench had affirmed conviction of the accused Manoharan for offences punishable under Sections 302, 376(2)(f) and (g) and 201 of the Indian Penal Code (in short "IPC") and by majority upheld the death sentence confirmed by the High Court.

(2.) Brief facts of the present case are as follows:

(3.) Kamala Bai (PW-9), the paternal grandmother of the children had gone to a Jain Temple around 8:00 a.m. in the morning. Upon returning home at 10:30 a.m. and finding Sangeetha in panic, Kamala Bai informed her that the children had been picked up by a former van driver and it was conjectured that the children must be in school. Vijay Kumar (PW-1) then went to the school and found that the children had however not reached. After a frantic but futile search, PW-1 lodged a police complaint (Ex. P1) with Vasuki (Sub-Inspector of Police, PW-42) at around 11AM under Section 363 of the Indian Penal Code (in short "IPC").