Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 115 · Decided 4 May 1979
Bachan Singh S/O Saudagar Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 115 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 1193
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 273/1979
- Decided
- 4 May 1979
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, P.S. KAILASAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Matter referred to larger bench
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 354(3), 367(5); Constitution
Headnote
Penal Code'-Death penalty-When can be imposed-Judges-If have ~ power to reduce sentence of death to one of life imprisonment-Raiendra .::-~·:Prasad's case-If a valid precedent. ... ... HELD : (Per Sark>1ria, J.) The records of this case be submitted to the Hon'ble Chief Justice for out by Kailasam J. in his order, particularly in its last paragraph. (Per Kailasam, J.) 1. Before the amendment of Section 367(5) of the Code of Criminal Pro­ cedure by the Criminal Procedure Code (Amendment) Act 1955 (Act 26 of 1955) was introduced, the normal sentence for an offence of
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