Supreme Court of India

Bhaggi @ Bhagirath @ Naran v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [2024] 2 S.C.R. 111
Bench C.T. Ravikumar and Rajesh Bindal JJ.
Decided 5 February 2024

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that a fixed term of sentence of 30 years, which shall include the period already undergone, must be the modified sentence of imprisonment.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration The capital punishment awarded to the petitioner-convict for the conviction u/s. 376 AB, IPC was not confirmed and it was commuted to imprisonment for life, which, going by the provisions thereunder, means imprisonment for the remainder of the convict’s natural life. The only question is whether the commutation of capital punishment to sentence of life imprisonment requires further interference. Headnotes Sentence/Sentencing – Modification of sentence – Allegation that petitioner-convict took 7 year old girl to a temple and raped her – Trial Court convicted petitioner

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