Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 968 · Decided 25 August 2008
MD. Abdul Sufan Laskar and ORS. v. State of Assam
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 968 · [2008] 12 S.C.R. 561
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1343/2008
- Decided
- 25 August 2008
- Bench
- C.K. THAKKER, DALVEER BHANDARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 324, 147; CrPC Section 320
Headnote
A Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.320 - Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act, 2005 (Act 25 of 2005) - Compounding of offence - Offence under s. 324 /PC - c Allegedly committed in 1995 - Parties compromising the matter - Whether compounding of the offence was permissible - Held, Yes, was compoundable under the CrPC as it stood in 1995 - Though such offence is no more compoundable in view of the CrPC D (Amendment) Act, 2005, but the said Amendment Act came into force only from June 23, 2006 and thus has no application to the facts of the present case - Penal Code, 1860 -
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