Judgment

KRISHNA IYER,J :- A young woman was vomited into death by a young man by giving her a cup of milk mixed with a lethal dose of strychnine. He, along with two others bundled the cadaver into a Delhi-bound train but the coach cleaner discovered it, the police unearthed the crime, the court convicted the culprits awarding capital sentence to the killer and lighter punishments to the two accessories after the fact, under Section 201, I.P.C. Special leave has been granted to the only appellant on the sole ground of sentence and so our scrutiny is confined to the circumstances of the crime and criminal and the penological propriety of inflicting the higher or lesser punishment.

2. Twentysix-years-old Rabhubir Singh - the appellant - was a lesser official in the Malaria Eradication Department in Gorir, a village in Rajasthan. He became friends with a veterinary official, Sri Sharma, P.W. 13, and by a concatenation of innocent circumstances the appellant came into carnal comity with Kailashwati, the 2nd accused, a midwife in a local hospital. Later, the appellant was transferred to a village Mandhapia in the Family Planning Department where he came across Sushma Thomas, a nurse in th