Supreme Court · 1973 INSC 183 · Decided 10 October 1973
G.V.RAMANAIAH v. The Superintendent of Central Jail, Rajahmundry and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1973 INSC 183 · [1974] 1 S.C.R. 852
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 1435/1973
- Decided
- 10 October 1973
- Bench
- HANS RAJ KHANNA, R.S. SARKARIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 402(3); Constitution Article 161, 32
Headnote
Constitution of India, 19SO-Art. 161-V/l Schedule-Entry I List ll/, Entry 93, List I and Entry 64, List //-Code of Criminal Procedure (Act 8 of 1898) s. 402-Whether State Government can remit sentence in respect of oOences under ss. 489A 10 489D; /.P.C. The petitiorier, along with others, was I.P.C. relating to currency notes and bank notes. On the occasion of Gandhi Centenary the State Government granted special remii­ sion of sentences to various categories of prisoners who were convicted of offences against laws relating to matters to which the executive power of the State
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