Supreme Court of India

Jasvir Kaur v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [2012] 9 S.C.R. 1057
Bench Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai JJ.
Decided 26 November 2012

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid facts, the appellant deserves a lesser punishment than the other accused, her husband who played the main role in the E commission of the offence.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Sentence I Sentencing - Offence of cheating - Appellant's husband was Head Constable in the Punjab Police - Allegation that appellant and her husband extracted money c from the informant by making false promise that a job would be arranged for him in the Police - Both the accused, the appellant and her husband were found guilty of cheating by the courts below uls.420 /PC and both were given the same punishment, i.e. imprisonment for two years - Notice issued 0 by Supreme Court on the question of sentence in the case of appellant - Held: Though, both appellant and her husband were convicted

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