LOKEMAN SHAH . vs STATE OF WEST BENGAL — Crl.A. No. 784/2000

Case under Section II-B. Status: DISPOSED.

CNR: SCIN010034292000

DISPOSED

Filing Date

23-Feb-2000

Registration No

Crl.A. No. 784/2000

Diary Number

3429/2000

Order Date

11-Apr-2001

Document Type

Judgment - of Main Case

Disposal Type

Dismissed

Data as of 01-Jun-2026

Acts & Sections

Section II-B

Petitioner(s)

LOKEMAN SHAH .

Adv. S. K. BHATTACHARYA (Dead / Retired / Elevated)

Respondent(s)

STATE OF WEST BENGAL

Orders

11-Apr-2001 Judgment - of Main Case
11-Apr-2001 ROP - of Main Case
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casestatus.in Summary

Case Summary: Lokeman Shah v. State of West Bengal (2001) The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Lokeman Shah for murder during the 1984 communal riots in Calcutta, relying on his confessional statement as admissible and reliable evidence. However, it commuted both appellants' death sentences to life imprisonment, finding that while the murders were heinous, the perpetrators were illiterate, communally-inflamed individuals rather than cases meeting the "rarest of rare" threshold for capital punishment. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.

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