REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA INHERENT JURISDICTION REVIEW PETITION (CRL.) NOS. 446-447 OF 2019 IN CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS. 1174-1175 OF 2019 Manoharan ..... PETITIONER(S)

VERSUS State by Inspector of Police, .....RESPONDENT(S)

Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore

JUDGMENT

SURYA KANT, J.

These review petitions are directed against the judgment dated

01.08.2019 passed in Manoharan v. State by Inspector of Police, [(2019) 7 SCC 716.], wherein this three-Judge Bench had affirmed conviction of the accused Manoharan for offences punishable under Sections 302, 376(2)(f) and (g) and 201 of the Indian Penal Code (in short “IPC”) and by majority upheld the death sentence confirmed by the High Court.

Signature Not Verified Digitally si F gneAd byC RTUAL MATRIX NATARAJAN Date: 2019.11.07

16:26:36 IST Reason:

2. Brief facts of the present case are as follows:

‘X’, a ten-year-old girl and ‘Y’, her 7-year-old brother were enrolled in Classes V and II respectively in a private school at Coimbatore and would commute around 7:45 a.m. in a pickup vehicle owned by one Kartikeyan (PW-2). On 29.10.2010 the children left as usual with their school bags and lunch boxes and stood about two-hundred feet aw