SHRI RAM vs STATE OF UP — Crl.A. No. 593/1997

Summary: Shri Ram v. State of UP (Criminal Appeal No. 593/1997) The Supreme Court upheld convictions and death sentences for six accused in a brutal 1990 mass murder case involving five deaths. The court found that 24 accused persons formed an unlawful assembly and committed extremely premeditated and savage killings—including beheading three adults and burning a 10-year-old boy alive—motivated by revenge for a prior murder. The court confirmed the death sentences for Shyam Manohar (A-1), Shivram (A-2), Harish (A-4), Suresh (A-13), Prakash (A-8), and Ravindra (A-5), converting only Rajendra (A-6)'s death sentence to life imprisonment due to insufficient evidence of his direct firearm involvement. The court held this constituted a "rarest of rare case" warranting capital punishment under established jurisprudence, emphasizing the extreme brutality, premeditation, and total disregard for human dignity demonstrated by the offenders. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.