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Sukhdev Yadav @ Pehalwan v. State of (nct of Delhi) & Others

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Reported as [2025] 7 S.C.R. 2012
Bench B.V. Nagarathna and K.V. Viswanathan JJ.
Decided 29 July 2025

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What the Court ordered

We hold that in all cases where an accused/ convict has completed his period of jail term, he shall be entitled to be released forthwith and not continued in imprisonment if not wanted in any other case.

Judgment, page 40

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether, an accused/convict who has completed his “life imprisonment for a fixed term” such as twenty years of actual sentence without remission, as in the instant case, is entitled to be released from prison on completion of such a sentence or in other words, whether on completion of the fixed term of sentence as aforesaid, should the accused/convict seek remission of his sentence of “life imprisonment” by making an application to the competent authority for seeking “reduction of his sentence”. Headnotes† Penal Code, 1860 – ss.53, 57 – “life imprisonment” –

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