Supreme Court of India

Shailesh Jasvantbhai and Anr. v. State of Gujarat and Ors.

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Reported as [2006] 1 S.C.R. 477

Decided 19 January 2006

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Penal Code, 1860; Ss. 307, 324, 504 rlw Section 114/Bombay Police Act, Section 135: Assault-Sentencing-Held: Protection of society and stamping out c criminal proclivity should be the object of law-Law should adopt the corrective machinery/deterrence based on factual matrix-Sentencing process be stern however mercy could be granted where it warranted undue sympathy to impose inadequate sentence would be harmful to the society and judicial system- Though criminal law adheres in general to the principle of proportionality in .\. prescribing liability in proportion to the culpability of the type

Authorities it was built on

2004 Surjit Singh v. Nahara Ram and Anr. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2019 S. Sreesanth v. The Board of Control for Cricket in India & Ors. relied on
2014 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Surendra Singh relied on
2014 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Bablu relied on
2013 Shyam Narain v. The State of Nct of Delhi relied on
2013 Hazara Singh v. Raj Kumar and Ors. relied on
2013 Gopal Singh v. State of Uttarakhand relied on
2012 State of Rajasthan v. Vinod Kumar relied on
2024 Baba Natarajan Prasad v. M. Revathi referred to
2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others referred to
2017 Ravada Sasikala v. State of Andhra Pradesh & Anr. referred to
2015 Shanti Lal Meena v. State of Nct of Delhi, Cbi referred to
2015 State of Punjab v. Saurabh Bakshi referred to
2013 State of M.P. v. Najab Khan and Ors. referred to
2012 Soman v. State of Kerala referred to
2023 State of Punjab v. Dil Bahadur mentioned
2019 Ravi S/o Ashok Ghumare v. The State of Maharashtra mentioned
2017 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Nirmala Devi mentioned
2015 Raj Bala v. State of Haryana & Ors. Etc. Etc. mentioned
2015 State of Punjab v. Bawa Singh mentioned
2012 Alister Anthony Pareira v. State of Maharashtra mentioned

Of those, 7 relied on · 7 referred to · 6 mentioned

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