Supreme Court of India

Ravinder Singh v. The State Govt. of Nct of Delhi

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Reported as [2023] 4 S.C.R. 480

Bench Abhay S. Oka and Sanjay Kumar JJ.

Decided 25 April 2023

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 – s. 432 – Penal ode, 1860 – ss. 45, 53 – Power to impose a modified punishment – Special category sentencing to life imprisonment in excess of 14 years – Appellant was convicted for having committed offenc e u/s. 376, 377, 506 and was sentenced to life imprisonment – T rial Court directed that the appellant should not be given any clemency by t he State before he spent at least 20 years in jail – Same was confirmed by the High Court – On appeal, held: It is settled that t he power to impose a modified punishment within the punishment pr ovided for in the

Authorities it was built on

2008 Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra v. State of Karnataka cited by 55
2015 Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & Ors. cited by 30
1992 Madan Gopal Kakkad v. Naval Dubey and Anr. cited by 23
1980 Maru Ram Etc. Etc. v. Union of India & Anr. cited by 13

Where later benches applied it

2024 Navas @ Mulanavas v. State of Kerala referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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