Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 82 · Decided 5 February 2024
Bhaggi @ Bhagirath @ Naran v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 82 · [2024] 2 S.C.R. 111
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 2888/2023
- Decided
- 5 February 2024
- Bench
- C.T. RAVIKUMAR, RAJESH BINDAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 363; CrPC Section 366; POCSO Act Section 5(d), 6
Headnote
The capital punishment awarded to the petitioner-convict for the conviction u/s. 376 AB, IPC was not confirmed and it was commuted to imprisonment for life, which, going by the provisions thereunder, means imprisonment for the remainder of the convict's question is whether the commutation of capital punishment to sentence of life imprisonment requires further interference. Sentence/Sentencing - Modification of sentence - Allegation that petitioner-convict took 7 year old girl to a temple and raped her - Trial Court
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