Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 101 · Decided 13 February 2013
Life Convict Bengal @ Khoka @ Prasanta Sen v. B.K. Srivastava & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 101 · [2013] 3 S.C.R. 392
- Case number
- CONTEMPT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 363/2011
- Decided
- 13 February 2013
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, J.S. KHEHAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Contempt
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 57, 302, 34; CrPC Section 401, 432
Headnote
c Penal Code, 1860 - s.57 - Life imprisonment - Meaning and effect of -Remission - Entitlement to - Held: Once a person is sentenced to undergo life imprisonment unless imprisonment for life is commuted by the competent authority, he has for the whole of his life - S.57 0 /PC does not, in any way, limit the punishment of imprisonment for life to a term of 20 years - In absence of subsequent order of remission by the competent Government either based on s.57 /PC or any other provision of CrPC, the life convict cannot be
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