Supreme Court of India

Gurvail Singh @ Gala v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [2013] 17 S.C.R. 983
Bench Dr. B.S. Chauhan and S.A. Bobde JJ.
Decided 26 August 2013

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the observations made in Sangeet's case (supra) are not warranted.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Sentence/Sentencing - Competence of Supreme Court to fix a number of years of sentence (with or without remission) when the Court commutes death sentence to life imprisonment - Supreme Court awarded 30 years imprisonment without remission to the petitioner after commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment - Writ petition filed seeking directing to convert the sentence of 30 years without remission to a sentence of life imprisonment - Relying on the judgment passed in Sangeet case also sought declaration that Supreme Court is not competent to fix a particular number of years (with or

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