Supreme Court of India

Murali v. State Rep. by the Inspector of Police

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Reported as [2021] 1 S.C.R. 201
Bench N. V. Ramana, Surya Kant and Aniruddha Bose JJ.
Decided 5 January 2021

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that it is a fit case to take a sympathetic view and reconsider the quantum of sentences awarded to the appellants.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.320 – Compounding of offence under ss.307, 324 – Prosecution case was that fiftee n years ago, over a volleyball match, verbal altercation took place between victim-injured and original accused no.3 and 5 who after sometime cornered the victim along with the appellants and assa ulted him – Appellant-M struck the victim on his head with a hockey stick and appellant-R tied to kill him by giving a neck blow with sharp edged object and in the process, left hand of the victim and the t humb and finger of his right hand got severed – Trial court held app ellant-M

Where later benches applied it

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