Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 630 · Decided 30 August 2016
Ashiq Hussain Faktoo v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 630 · [2016] 5 S.C.R. 884
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 46/2008
- Decided
- 30 August 2016
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, PRAFULLA C. PANT, A.M. KHANWILKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 120B; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Constitution of India - Art. 32 - Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment by Supreme Court in appeal u/s.3 of TADA Act and s.302 rlw. s.J 20B !PC- Review petition dismissed- Writ petition filed by convict u!Art. 32 of the Constitution seeking of conviction and sentence on the principle of ex­ debito justitiae - Maintainability - Held: The present writ petition ul Art. 32 does not fit into any of the permissible categories of post conviction exercises permissible in law as laid down by Supreme Court - Merely because in the
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