Supreme Court of India
Surjit Singh v. Nahara Ram and Anr.
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Criminal Law-Appropriate sentence-Award of-General princi ples-Held: There should be adherence to the principle of proportionality according to the culpability of each kind of criminal conduct-It allows some significant discretion to the judge in awarding a sentence in each case-But undue sympathy to impose inadequate sentence would do more harm to justice system-Therefore, Court must award proper sentence having regard to the nature of offence and the manner in which it was committed-On facts, High Court not justified in reducing custodial sentence-Enhanced fine having been paid, custodial
Where later benches applied it
- 2006 Shailesh Jasvantbhai and Anr. v. State of Gujarat and Ors.
- 2012 Alister Anthony Pareira v. State of Maharashtra
Of those, 1 distinguished · 1 mentioned
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