JAGDISH YADAV vs STATE OF BIHAR — Crl.A. No. 637/1998

Jagdish Yadav v. State of Bihar (Crl.A. No. 637/1998) The Supreme Court set aside Jagdish Yadav's death sentence and reduced it to life imprisonment. While the Court confirmed he killed Dhaneshwar during a 1989 dacoity, it found the High Court erred in holding him individually responsible for other murders (lacking proper evidence after key witness Mithilesh died) and in declaring him the dacoits' leader (unsupported by evidence). The Court concluded the case did not constitute a "rarest of rare case" warranting capital punishment. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.