Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 305 · Decided 18 March 2020
Ex-Gunner Virender Prasad v. Union of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 305 · [2020] 4 S.C.R. 966
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2035/2012
- Decided
- 18 March 2020
- Bench
- S.A. BOBDE, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SURYA KANT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 433
Headnote
Army Act, 1950: s. 69 - Civil Offence of murder - Court martial - Accused found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment - Conviction and sentence affirmed by Armed Forces Tribunal - Appeal to Supreme Court - Held: Conviction is peculiar facts of the case, sentence of life imprisonment reduced to the period already undergone i.e. period of more than 14 years. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 433-A - Applicability of - Held: s. 433-A is applicable to a case tried for offence u/s. 69 of Army Act, 1950.
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