Supreme Court of India

Mangal Singh & Anr. v. Kishan Singh & Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 16 S.C.R. 505
Bench Tarun Chatterjee and Aftab Alam JJ.
Decided 21 November 2008

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Penal Code, 1860: ss.307 and 326 -High Court converting conviction from c s.307 to s.326 and substituting custodial sentence with fines - Held: It will be a grave mistake to assume that delay in trial does not cause acute suffering and anguish to victim of crime and that, as arule, all offences falling u/s 326 would be less serious than those falling uls 307 and would consequently · attract lighter sentence ..:... In the instant case, from the injuries .+- suffered by victim, it is evident that though the accused did not intend to kill him, they surely wanted to leave him crippled for the

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