Supreme Court Upholds Life Imprisonment with 25-Year Minimum in Khairlanji Mass Murder Case — Death Sentence Commuted Due to Lack of Criminal Record and Absence of Caste Motive. The Court affirmed that the case did not fall within the rarest of rare category under Section 302 IPC read with Section 354(3) CrPC, as the crime arose from a personal dispute rather than caste animus.
24 May 2019The case arises from the brutal murder of four members of a Scheduled Caste family in Khairlanji village on 29 September 2006. The victims were Surekh...




