Supreme Court of India

Shahejadkhan Mahebubkhan Pathan v. State of Gujarat

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Reported as [2012] 8 S.C.R. 1177
Bench P. Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi JJ.
Decided 5 October 2012

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Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 - ss. (c), 21 and 29 - Accused-appellants convicted by courts below for carrying commercial quantity of brown sugar (narcotic substance) and sentenced to RI for 15 years - Prayer before Supreme Court for reduction of the sentence - Held: The appellants were first time offenders and there was no past antecedent about their involvement in offence of like nature on earlier occasions - In view of the same, while o confirming the conviction of appellants, their sentence reduced to 10 years, the minimum prescribed sentence under the relevant

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