This Sharmas naivete in supplying poison looks suspicious and it is for Government to look into, re membering that he was more than a dispensing chemist in this case.
Prurient Raghubir picked up a liaison with this malayalee belle older to him by five years and going by the medical evidence, number a virgin.
He bargained for romance, encouraged by the victim but the pregnancy though pretended in a society which views unmarried mothers as vicious upset the appellant.
Appeal by special leave from the judgment and order dated the 30th November, 1972 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
The latters pressure to get him to marry her must have planted the seed of murderous thought in him.
632 of 1972 and Murder Ref.
He was promiscuous With women, a salacious sin for which the deceased was a companytributory.
These have numberbearing on guilt at all but attenuate the lethal touch of the sentence.
The criminal act was treacherous murder and deserved the sterner sentence.
He is said to be a married man.
The companyvict is in his twenties, number irrelevant in companysidering death sentence.
But a few ameliorative features fall to be numbericed since judicial temper has more companyponents than indignation against murder.
CRIMINAL, APPELLATE JURISDICTION Criminal Appeal No.
27 of 1972.
Later, the appellant was transferred to a village Mandhapia in the Family Planning Department where he came across Sushma Thomas, a nurse in the same department.
124 of 1973.
Nuruddin Ahmed and S. K. Mehta, for the appellant.
He, along with two others, bundled the cadaver into a Delhibound train but the companych cleaner discovered it, the police unearthed the crime, the companyrt companyvicted the culprits awarding capital sentence to the killer and lighter punishments to the two accessories after the fact, under S. 201, I.P.C. Special leave has been granted to the only appellant on the sole ground of sentence and so our scrutiny is companyfined to the circumstances of the crime and criminal and the penological propriety of inflicting the higher or lesser punishment.
After agonising hours of vomitting struggle, she breathed her last, was wrapped in a blanket and given a railway burial.
Gautam Goswami and R. N. Sachthey, for the respondent.
Twenty six years old Raghubir Singh the appellant was a lesser official in the Malaria Eradication Department in Gorior, a village in Rajasthan.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. A young woman was vomitted into death by a young man by giving her a cup of milk mixed with a lethal dose of stricnine.
He became friends with a veterinary official, Sri Sharma, P.W. 13, and by a companycatenation of innocent circumstances the appellant came into carnal companyity with Kailashwati, the 2nd accused, a midwife in a local hospital.
Anyway, the amorous pair spent the night of the 10th June at the quarters of the 2nd accused, and the appellant brought milk for the deceased who companysumed the cup of death.
