Supreme Court of India

State of M.P. v. Bala @ Balaram

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Reported as [2005] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 859

Bench R.C. Lahoti, G.P. Mathur and P.K. Balasubramanyan JJ.

Decided 3 October 2005

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Penal Code, 1860-Sections 376(/) and (2) proviso, 376(2)(g) Commission of Rape-Award of sentence of I 0 years RI and fine-Reduction of, to the period already undergone about 9 months, by High Court- Correctness of-Held: High Court reduced the sentence inadequately without assigning adequate and special reasons-Hence, order illegal and set aside Matter remitted back to High Court for fresh consideration-Sentencing. The question which arose for consideration in this appeal was with regard to the legality of the order passed by the High Court in reducing the sentence of 10 years R. I. awarded

Authorities it was built on

1983 Earabhadrappa Alias Krishnappa v. State of Karnataka cited by 70

Where later benches applied it

2013 Shimbhu and Anr. v. State of Haryana relied on
2012 State of Rajasthan v. Vinod Kumar relied on
2021 Patan Jamal Vali v. The State of Andhra Pradesh referred to
2015 Vikram Singh@ Vicky &anr. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to

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