What is Constitutional validity of Section 302 IPC?
Death sentence Section 302 of the Indian Penal Code deals with ‘punishing the person who commits murder with the death penalty; imprisonment or fine’. The object of the punishment is to ensure that the offender does not repeat the offence especially in cases of grave offences. The death penalty is also called as the capital punishment. This is given in the rare of the rarest cases when the offence is extremely grave and the offenders can’t be forbidden by law. The concept was introduced in 1980 in Bachchan Singh v. State of Punjab case, in the instant case the accused murdered three...
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