Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 523 · Decided 15 July 2024
Baba Natarajan Prasad v. M. Revathi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 523 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 781
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2912/2024
- Decided
- 15 July 2024
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, SANJAY KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 494, 495; CrPC Section 418(1)
Headnote
Whether the High Court had shown undeserving leniency and sympathy to accused Nos.1 and 2 by sentencing them to undergo imprisonment till the rising of the court and to pay a fine of Rs.20,000/- each, even after finding that they committed the serious offence of bigamy of sentence is called for. Sentence/Sentencing - Enhancement of - High Court after restoring conviction for the offence of bigamy punishable u/s. 494 IPC, sentenced accused Nos.1 and 2 to undergo imprisonment till the rising of the court and to pay a fine of
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