Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 464 · Decided 2 July 2014
Arjun Jadav v. State of West Bengal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 464 · [2014] 6 S.C.R. 1067
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 229/2004
- Decided
- 2 July 2014
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 57; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing: Conviction and life imprisonment A B of the writ petitioner - Mercy petitions made twice for C premature release of petitioner but rejected - Superintendent of Jail also strongly recommended reconsideration of case of petitioner - Peti!ioner undergone custody of more than period of remission and about 17 years of actual custody - V\lrit petition seeking release - Held: Once a D person is sentenced to undergo life imprisonment unless imprisonment for life is commuted by competent authority, he has to undergo imprisonment for whole of his life - In the instant
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