Supreme Court of India · 2002-09-09
Ashish Batham vs State Of Madhya Pradesh
- Citation / case number
- AIR 2002 SUPREME COURT 3206
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Petitioner
- Ashish Batham
- Respondent
- State Of Madhya Pradesh
- Author
- D. Raju
- Bench
- Doraiswamy Raju, Shivaraj V. Patil
Judgment text excerpt
The appellant challenged a conviction and sentence for two counts of murder under Section 302 IPC and house trespass under Section 449 IPC. While the trial court had imposed the death penalty, the High Court of Madhya Pradesh reduced the sentence to life imprisonment. The Supreme Court was called upon to review the conviction and the modified sentence in the context of the deaths of two daughters of a physician.