Context
The Supreme Court recently agreed to examine the validity of a law which sends a guilty man either to a lifetime in prison or to the gallows for gang raping a child under 12 years without affording him a chance to atone for his crime or reform.
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Petitioner:
Argument:
Similar SC Observation for Murder: The SC in 'Mithu Vs Punjab' in 1983, had ruled that Section 303 of IPC was unconstitutional to the extent it provided for mandatory death penalty to a person who committed a murder while serving life sentence in another case. Section 303 had mandated that courts would impose no other punishment but death penalty in such cases. |
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