RAJ KUMAR vs STATE (N.C.T.) OF DELHI — Crl.A. No. 1201/2001

Summary of Crl.A. No. 001201/2001 – Raj Kumar v. State (N.C.T.) of Delhi The Supreme Court dismissed Raj Kumar's criminal appeal on August 14, 2002, upholding his conviction for murder under Section 302 IPC and life imprisonment sentence (originally death sentence imposed by trial court, reduced by High Court). The appellant was convicted for murdering his sister-in-law Sarla and her son Ashu on May 22, 1994, in Delhi; he also faced conviction under Section 307 IPC for injuring two others. The Court accepted eyewitness testimony of two child witnesses (PWs 7 and 8) as reliable and credible, finding no reason to interfere with the lower courts' findings. The concurrent Special Leave Petition (SLP Crl. No. 7173/2001) was also dismissed, affirming that the crime did not qualify as "rarest of the rare" warranting capital punishment. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.