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In which case did the Supreme Court of India lay down the rarest-of-rare standard for imposing the…

In Bachan Singh v State of Punjab, decided in 1980, the Supreme Court confined the death penalty to the rarest of rare cases in which the alternative of life imprisonment is…

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In which case did the Supreme Court of India lay down the rarest-of-rare standard for imposing the death penalty?

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In Bachan Singh v State of Punjab, decided in 1980, the Supreme Court confined the death penalty to the rarest of rare cases in which the alternative of life imprisonment is foreclosed.

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The Constitution Bench articulated the rarest-of-rare standard in Bachan Singh.

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Nanavati is associated with the law on grave and sudden provocation.

Option C

Khushal Rao concerns the evidentiary treatment of a dying declaration.

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Sharad Birdhichand Sarda is associated with proof by circumstantial evidence.

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