Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 30 · Decided 19 January 2021
Lakhvir Singh Etc v. The State of Punjab & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 30 · [2021] 1 S.C.R. 269
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 47/2021
- Decided
- 19 January 2021
- Bench
- SANJAY KISHAN KAUL, HRISHIKESH ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 397; CrPC Section 360
Headnote
Probation of Offenders Act, 1958: Object of legislation - Held: To give the benefit of release of offenders on probation of good conduct instead of sentencing them to imprisonment - Thus, increasing emphasis on the reformation and rehabilitation of offenders as useful and self-reliant deleterious effects of jail life is what is sought to be subserved. Probation of Offenders Act, 1958: s.6 - Appellants were convicted by trial court for offence under s.397 IPC and sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of seven years each - High Court dismissed the appeal against
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