Supreme Court of India

Shyam Narain Pandey v. State of U.P.

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Reported as [2014] 8 S.C.R. 923
Bench M.Y. Eqbal J.
Decided 22 July 2014

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CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973: s. 389 (1) - Prayer for stay of conviction - Appellant c convicted u/s 302 /PC etc. - Prayer declined by High Court - Held: It has been cautioned time and again that court should be very wary in staying the conviction and it shall be done only in very rare and exceptional cases of irreparable injury coupled with irreversible consequences resulting in injustice 0 -- The plea that appellant will be deprived of his source of livelihood if conviction is not stayed, cannot be appreciated - - High Court has rightly held that it is not a very rare and exceptional

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