Conviction Hindu and Hindu-derived contexts Bhilai, Chhattisgarh, India · 2010

Durg human-sacrifice murder: Supreme Court confirmed convictions and life sentences

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Appellate history

The High Court commuted the trial death sentences to life imprisonment without remission or parole and acquitted two other defendants. The Supreme Court confirmed the two main defendants' murder and evidence-destruction convictions and sentences while setting aside kidnapping and conspiracy counts.

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Evidence status

Convicted

Authority role

self-described tantrik, Gurumata, spiritual leaders with disciples

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No organization assigned

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The Supreme Court found that Yadav and Bai, who claimed to be tantriks, admitted that the child had been killed and buried to attain siddhi. It held that independent testimony, recovery from their property, identification evidence and forensic evidence established their responsibility beyond reasonable doubt for the human-sacrifice murder.

Violent occult ideology or sacrifice
Ritual, oath, or initiation
Guru or spiritual-teacher authority

Evidence structure

Proceedings

Date in cited record · murder convictions and capital sentences

Sessions Judge, Durg, Sessions Trial No. 98 of 2011. The trial court convicted Ishwari Lal Yadav and Kiran Bai of kidnapping, murder, conspiracy and destroying evidence and imposed death sentences for murder.
2016-11-30 · capital reference and appeal

High Court of Chhattisgarh, Criminal Reference No. 4 of 2014 and Criminal Appeal No. 1068 of 2014. The High Court confirmed Yadav's and Bai's murder convictions, reduced the death sentences to life imprisonment without remission or parole, and acquitted two other defendants.
2019-10-03 · final merits appeal

Supreme Court of India, Criminal Appeal No. 1522 of 2019. The Supreme Court confirmed Yadav's and Bai's convictions for murder with common intention and destroying evidence and the life-without-remission-or-parole sentences. It set aside their kidnapping and conspiracy convictions.

Documented coercion mechanisms

claimed attainment of siddhi
human sacrifice
ritual authority
direction of followers

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supreme court judgment final conviction and nexus finding Supreme Court of India, Ishwari Lal Yadav v. State of Chhattisgarh, Criminal Appeal No. 1522 of 2019, judgment (Oct. 3, 2019).: The official judgment treats this as a separate trial and appeal, records the defendants' claimed tantrik status and siddhi motive, reviews the recovery and corroborating evidence, confirms murder and evidence-destruction convictions and life sentences, and preserves the acquittals and reversed counts.

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Source and tier basis: https://api.sci.gov.in/supremecourt/2017/7636/7636_2017_5_1502_17418_Judgement_03-Oct-2019.pdf Corpus classification: supreme-court-judgment; evidentiary role: final-conviction-and-nexus-finding. SHA-256 d9d29ecde6bd4c99c40446500e0327d09e3327c3c127046b4735b6feaf3847d3
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