Supreme Court of India
V.K. Verma v. Cbi
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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.
What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the facts mentioned above would certainly be special reasons for reducing the substantive sentence but enhancing the fine, while maintaining the conviction.
Judgment, page 6
From the headnote
SENTENCE/SENTENCING: c Reducing of sentence to a period less than the minimum prescribed -- Conviction u/ss. 5(1) (d) rlw s. 5(2) of 1947 Act ands. 161, /PC - Conviction and sentence of one and half years with fine - Held: Thirty years long delay in the proceedings, three months incarceration, age of accused with 0 ailments and the petty amount of bribe would be special reasons for reducing the substantive sentence -- Accordingly, sentence of imprisonment is reduced to the period already undergone and fine enhanced to Rs. 50, 0001- -- Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 -- ulss. 5(1) (d) rlw
Where later benches applied it
- 2023 Jitendra Kumar Rode v. Union of India
- 2017 Association of Victims of Uphaar Tragedy v. Sushil Ansal and Another
- 2015 K.P. Singh v. State of Nct of Delhi
Of those, 3 referred to
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