Supreme Court of India

V.K. Verma v. Cbi

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Reported as [2014] 1 S.C.R. 1063
Bench Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and Kurian Joseph JJ.
Decided 14 February 2014

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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

Of those, 3 referred to

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