Supreme Court of India
Rajan v. The Home Secretary, Home Department of Tamil Nadu and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that while multiple sentences for imprisonment for life can be awarded for multiple murders or other offences punishable with imprisonment for life, the life sentences so awarded cannot be directed to run consecutively.
Judgment, page 12
From the headnote
Sentence/Sentencing: Remission of sentence – Petitioner was sentenced to 7 ye ars RI for offence punishable u/s. 395 IPC and for 5 years imprisonment for offences punishable u/s. 3/25(1A) of Arms Act – Furthe r he was sentenced to life sentence for the offences punisha ble u/ss. 307 IPC (4 counts) and 302 IPC (3 counts) and u/s. 27(3) of Arms Act – Petitioner’s representation for premature release moved i n the year 2010 was rejected – Thereafter another representation was moved in the year 2018 for premature release – Getting no response to the representation, he filed present writ petition
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Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Bilkis Yakub Rasool v. Union of India & Others
- 2022 Ram Chander v. The State of Chhattisgarh & Anr.
Of those, 2 referred to
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