https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187513 Conviction under Section 27(3) of the Arms Act could not rest on an administrative note; the Court held that a statutory notification in the Official Gazette was required to classify weapons as prohibited arms, and strict compliance was essential for a death-penalty provision, so that conviction was set aside. On sentence, the Court reiterated that death punishment under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC requires special reasons and applies only in the rarest of rare cases; as the facts did not justify the extreme penalty, the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment while the murder conviction was maintained. en-us Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 25 Oct 2016 12:19:29 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187513 Conviction under Section 27(3) of the Arms Act could not rest on an administrative note; the Court held that a statutory notification in the Official Gazette was required to classify weapons as prohibited arms, and strict compliance was essential for a death-penalty provision, so that conviction was set aside. On sentence, the Court reiterated that death punishment under Section 302 read with Section 34 IPC requires special reasons and applies only in the rarest of rare cases; as the facts did not justify the extreme penalty, the death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment while the murder conviction was maintained. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 12 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187513