Sikkim Court April 1980 Judgments
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Pema Dukpa and anr. Vs. State of Sikkim
Court: Sikkim
Decided on: Apr-29-1980
Reported in: 1981CriLJ276
A.M. Bhattacharjee, J.1. The two accused-appellants, Pema Dukpa and Pemba Bhutia, have been convicted by the learned Sessions Judge for committing the murder of one D. S. Rai and also for causing disappearance of evidence of the offence by removing his dead body with the intention of screening themselves from legal punishment. For the offence of murder, the accused Pema Dukpa has been sentenced to death and the other accused Pemba Bhutia has been sentenced to imprisonment for life while for the offence of causing disappearance of evidence, they have been sentenced to four years' and three years' rigorous imprisonment respectively. The accused have come up in appeal before us while the learned Sessions Judge has also, as he must, submitted the proceedings to this Court under Section 374, Code of Criminal Procedure, After going through the records and hearing the learned Counsel for the appellants and the learned Advocate-General appearing for the State, we are satisfied that we must all...
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