Supreme Court of India

K. M. Nanavati v. The State of Bombay

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Reported as [1961] 1 S.C.R. 497
Bench Bhuvneshwar Prasad Sinha, J.L. Kapur, P.B. Gajendragadkar, K. Subba Rao and K.N. Wanchoo JJ.
Decided 5 September 1960

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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

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Of those, 3 referred to

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