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Shatrughan Baban Meshram

案件摘要

司法管轄

印度

國籍

印度人

案件標題: Shatrughna Baban Meshram v. State of Maharashtra

作案時年齡: 21

作案時年齡組: 成年人 (18至59歲)

性别: 男性

犯罪時的宗教信仰: 印度教

司法轄區 - 地理定位

緯度: 20.5937

經度: 78.9629

司法轄區 - 地理定位 (已連結案件摘要): 印度

瑞慈合作機構

The Square Circle Clinic (印度)

該國最新死刑狀態

保留死刑

案件現狀: 已結案: 減刑

判處死刑年份: 2010s: 2015

涉嫌侵犯的權利

公正審判與正當程序權利: 在各階段獲得充分法律代理的權利

死刑所涉罪名的性質

性暴力: Rape
謀殺: 一名受害者

專家證據

法醫 / 醫學證據: DNA / 血清學 / 生物學
法醫 / 醫學證據: 屍檢 / 死後檢驗

案件背景 (最多300字): The accused allegedly raped and murdered his minor niece.

The key circumstances against the accused are: last seen evidence; deceased victim and accused were found lying at the same place; medical report (accused’s injuries suggest recent sexual intercourse); post-mortem report (injuries consistent with forceful sexual penetration, bite marks and torn flesh indicates brutality); clothes of the deceased and accused were seized from the site of incident; and DNA analysis (blood of deceased matches with blood found on accused’s pants).

The Trial Court had convicted and sentenced the accused to death on 14.08.205. The High Court confirmed the conviction and sentence on 12.10.2015. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction but commuted the sentence on 02.11.2020

辯方意見 (最多200字)

Conviction

Medical examination of accused at arrest not on record
Last seen witnesses were not independent witnesses; discrepancies in their statements 3)Forensic report found no semen on the articles sent to the lab

Sentence

That the imposition of death sentence on the same day of conviction vitiates fair trial rights
that a case based on circumstantial evidence should not result in death sentence based on the theory of residual doubt as recognised by Supreme Court in Ashok Debbarma, Ravishankar

判决摘要 (最多200字): Death sentences where conviction based on circumstantial evidence- held, can be imposed- sets standard for such evidence- unimpeachable character of evidence and must be an exceptional case; held that residual doubt over evidence not a consideration for capital sentencing; death sentence on same day of conviction by itself not a ground for commutation

The Supreme Court's criminal appeal decision upheld the conviction but commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment. The conviction was upheld based on the finding that the chain of circumstances pointing to the accused's guilt were established- these include the victim's custody with accused, presence of injuries in accused's genitals corresponding to the offence, DNA evidence of bloodstain from accused's clothes matched the victim.

Death sentence was commuted based on the fact that the appellant had not intended to cause the victim's death.

獲得法律代理的情況

第二次上訴階段: 公益律師

與罪名相關的立法: S. 302 IPC S. 376A IPC

案件材料語言

英語

主要文檔

11. Shatrughna Baban Meshram v. State of Maharashtra, (2021) 1 SCC 596.pdf
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