Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 915 · Decided 17 December 2021
Govindan v. State Represented BY the Deputy Superintendent of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 915 · [2021] 9 S.C.R. 515
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1665/2021
- Decided
- 17 December 2021
- Bench
- R. SUBHASH REDDY, HRISHIKESH ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304(II), 304(ii), 3(2)(v)
Headnote
Sentence / Sentencing - Quantum of punishment - Appellant convicted by trial court u/s.304(II) IPC and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for ten years - Conviction and sentence confirmed by High Court - Issue before Supreme Court limited to quantum of punishment to quantum of sentence, it all depends on background facts of the case, antecedents of the accused, whether the assault was pre-meditated and pre-planned or not, etc. - In the present case, there was a dispute with regard to pathway, which the complainant's family members were claiming
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