Supreme Court of India

State through C.B.I., Anti Corruption Branch, Chandigarh v. Sanjiv Bhalla & Anr.

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Reported as [2014] 6 S.C.R. 1078
Bench Ranjana Prakash Desai and Madan B. Lokur JJ.
Decided 4 July 2014

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Probation of Offenders Act, 1958: Held: person convicted under the provisions of the PC Act cannot be granted benefit of release on probation of good conduct u/ s. 360 of the Code of Criminal Procedure or under the provisions of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.360. Criminal jurisprudence: Sentence - Just sentencing - Held: Punishment should be rehabilitative and humanizing and need not necessarily be retributive in character - Judges have to strike a fine balance between releasing a convict after admonition or on probation or putting such a convict

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