Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 540 · Decided 22 April 2025
Chellammal and Another v. State Represented BY the Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 540 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 2306
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2065/2025
- Decided
- 22 April 2025
- Bench
- DIPANKAR DATTA, MANMOHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 360(1), 360, 361, 374(2)
Headnote
Whether the appellants could be granted the benefit of probation either u/s.360(1) of CrPC or u/s.4 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958; whether the High Court was justified in not extending the benefit of probation to the appellants. Probation - sub-section (1) of s.4 - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.360 - Appellants were jointly tried for commission of offences u/ss.304-B and 498-A of IPC - The Sessions Court acquitted the appellants of charge u/s.304-B but convicted them u/s.498-A of IPC -
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