Different benches of Supreme Court decide differently for two accused for same offence in the same crime of murder
It refers to Supreme Court deciding to hear a review-petition by a murderer awarded for life-sentence on the plea that another accused in the same case with same charge-sheet was sentenced for just ten-year jail-term but by a different bench of the Apex Court. Episode reminds of Apex Court verdict just three days prior to infamous Delhi gang-rape of 16th December 2012, when the Apex Court surprisingly held that rape-cum-murder after consuming liquor was not rarest of rare because it was a crime committed in drunken state of mind. It is a common knowledge that such a convict leaves no mode of entertaining himself where drinking before rape is also a part of such composite crime. Evidently the said verdict would never have been endorsed by many other judges of the Supreme Court. There is ano...