Supreme Court · 1960 INSC 142 · Decided 5 September 1960
K. M. Nanavati v. The State of Bombay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1960 INSC 142 · [1961] 1 S.C.R. 497
- Case number
- Criminal Miscellaneous Petition No. 320/1960
- Decided
- 5 September 1960
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, J.L. KAPUR, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, K. SUBBA RAO, K.N. WANCHOO (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Constitution Article 161
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 497 K. M. NANAVATI v. THE STATE OF BOMBAY (B. P. SINHA, c. J., J. L. KA~Ult, P. B. GAJENDltA­ GADKAlt, K. SuBBA RAO and- IC N. WANCHOO, JJ.) Sentence, suspension of-Order by Governor during pendency of appeal in the Supreme Cotirt-If constitutionally valid-Governor's was Seco.nd in Command of l. N. S. Mysore which came.to Bombay in the beginning of March, 1959· Soon thereafter he was arrested on a charge of murder under s. 302 of ·the Indian Peria] Code and was placed, and continued to remain, in naval custody all along during his trial.
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