Supreme Court of India

Chandrakant Patil v. State through Cbi

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Reported as [1998] 1 S.C.R. 447
Bench M.K. Mukherjee and K.T. Thomas JJ.
Decided 2 February 1998

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we enhance the sentence of imprisonment from 5 years as awarded by the Designated Court, to 10 years for all the for accused A-1 C Subhash Singh Thakur, A-2 Jayendra Thakur @ Bhai Thakur, A-3 Shyam Kishore Garikapati and A-4 Chandrakant Patil.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Criminal Law : Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 : Section 377 (3). Sentence-Appeal against-By Government-Acquittal-Right of accused to plead/or-Supreme Court already confirmed conviction of accused under S.5 TADA after considering in detail contentions raised by accused and also dismissed review petition-Held :, Right to plead for acquittal confined only to appeals presented by Government to High Court-Hence, c no further opportunity can be afforded to the accused in appeal before /·· Supreme Court under S.19 of TADA to plead for acquittal by reviewing the findings already made. Terrorist and

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