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Section 303 of the Indian Penal Code, which mandated a compulsory death sentence for murder committed by a person undergoing a life sentence, was struck down as unconstitutional in which landmark judgment?

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1Mithu v. State of Punjab✓
2Selvi v. State of Karnataka
3D.K. Basu v. State of West Bengal
4Saghir Ahmed v. State of U.P.

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Mithu v. State of Punjab

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