Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 563 · Decided 4 December 2012
Jeetu @ Jitendera & ORS. v. State of Chhattisgarh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 563 · [2012] 13 S.C.R. 161
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1986/2012
- Decided
- 4 December 2012
- Bench
- K.S. RADHAKRISHNAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 147, 327, 149; CrPC
Headnote
A B Appeal - Appeal against conviction - Conviction by trial court under the provisions of /PC - In appeal, counsel for the convicts not challenging their conviction, but only seeking C lenient sentence - High Court maintained the conviction and reduced the sentence - On appeal, held: It is the appeal on merits and not accept the concession and proceed to deal with the sentence - Such plea bargaining is impermif;sible in law and defeats the D fundamental purpose of the justice delivery system - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - Chapter XX/A - ss. 265A and 265L (as inserted by the
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