Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1256 · Decided 17 January 2017
Anil Kumar v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1256 · [2017] 1 S.C.R. 418
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 77/2017
- Decided
- 17 January 2017
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 427; NDPS Act Section 22
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.427- Exercise of power . under, scope - In ternls of sub-section (1) of s.427. if a person already undergoing a sentence of imprisonment is sentenced on a subsequent conviction to imprisonment, such subsequent term of · imprisonment would normally he was previously sei1tenced- Only in appropriate cases, the court can make the sentence run concurrently with an earlier :Jentence imposed- The investiture of such discretion, D · presupposes that such d;scretion be exercised by the Court o~ sound judicial principles and not in a
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