Supreme Court of India
K. M. Nanavati v. The State of Bombay
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What the Court ordered
In the result. the application dated April 21, 1960, as amended by the affidavit of July 6, 1960, praying that the special leave petition be listed for hearing without requiring the petitioner to surrender in view of the order of the Governor foils and is dismissed.
Judgment, page 38
From the headnote
Sentence, suspension of-Order by Governor during pendency of appeal in the Supreme Cotirt-If constitutionally valid-Governor's power of clemency-Court's power of granting bail or suspending sentence-Harmonious exercise of two powers-The Constitution of India, Arts. I6I, I42-Suprcme Court Rules, Order XXI, r. 5. The petitioner was Seco.nd in Command of l. N. S. Mysore which came.to Bombay in the beginning of March, 1959· Soon thereafter he was arrested on a charge of murder under s. 302 of ·the Indian Peria] Code and was placed, and continued to remain, in naval custody all along during his
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Surender Singh v. State (nct of Delhi)
- 2015 Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Ors.
- 2015 Vivek Rai & Anr. v. High Court of Jharkhand through Registrar General & Ors.
Of those, 3 referred to
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