Supreme Court of India

G. Krishta Goud & J. Bhoomaiah v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Ors.

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Reported as [1976] 2 S.C.R. 73
Bench V.R. Krishna Iyer and A.C. Gupta JJ.
Decided 3 October 1975

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Before parting with this special leave petition-which we reject-· we visualize the contingency of the petitioners invoking the merciful jurisdiction of the President or Governor, as the case may be, setting out various factors with which the Court may not be concerned while imposing judicial sentence but may still have persuasive value before the concerned Executive.

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