Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 421 · Decided 27 March 2009
Kaliben Rabari v. State of Gujarat & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 421 · [2009] 5 S.C.R. 331
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 571/2009
- Decided
- 27 March 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, A.K. GANGULY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304; CrPC Section 357
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860 - s. 304 (Part I) and (Part II) - Order of High Court altering conviction from s. 304 (Part I) to s. 304 c (Part II) and sentence from ten years to two and half years - Also reduction of compensation from Rs. 5 lakhs to Rs. 3 lakhs - Challenge to - Held: When custodial sentence there was no basis for reducing compensation as awarded from Rs. 5 /akhs to Rs. 3 /akhs - D Also reasons were not indicated to justify reduction - Thus, quantum of compensation enhanced to Rs. 5 lakhs - Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 357. CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Criminal Appeal E
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