Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 567 · Decided 26 August 2013
Gurvail Singh @ Gala v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 567 · [2013] 17 S.C.R. 983
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 8788/2013
- Decided
- 26 August 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, S.A. BOBDE (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 30i; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing - Competence of Supreme Court A B to fix a number of years of sentence (with or without remission) when the Court commutes death sentence to life imprisonment C - Supreme Court awarded 30 years imprisonment without remission to the petitioner after commuting the death sentence petition filed seeking directing to convert the sentence of 30 years without remission to a sentence of life imprisonment - Relying on the judgment D passed in Sangeet case also sought declaration that Supreme Court is not competent to fix a particular number of years (with or without remission),
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