Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 944 · Decided 3 October 2016
Benson v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 944 · [2016] 8 S.C.R. 166
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 958/2016
- Decided
- 3 October 2016
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, UDAY UMESH LALIT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 42, 427
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.42? - Concurrent running of subsequent sentence with previous sentence - Appellant charged of having committed various offences - Tried separately and sentenced in each of the offences - Plea of appellant for concurrent running of sentences - Held: Court has a direction that the subsequent sentence shall run concurrently with the previous sentence - Whether or not a direction ought to be issued in a given case would depend upon the nature of the offence or offences committed and the fact situation - On facts, sentence imposed on appellant in each of
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