Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1334 · Decided 21 November 2008
Mangal Singh & ANR. v. Kishan Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1334 · [2008] 16 S.C.R. 505
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1858/2008
- Decided
- 21 November 2008
- Bench
- TARUN CHATTERJEE, AFTAB ALAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 326
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: ss.307 and 326 -High Court converting conviction from c s.307 to s.326 and substituting custodial sentence with fines - Held: It will be a grave mistake to assume that delay in trial does not cause acute suffering and anguish to victim of crime and that, as arule, all offences be less serious than those falling uls 307 and would consequently · D attract lighter sentence ..:... In the instant case, from the injuries .+- suffered by victim, it is evident that though the accused did not intend to kill him, they surely wanted to leave him crippled for the rest of
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