Supreme Court · 2026 INSC 355 · Decided 10 April 2026
Milind S/O Ashruba Dhanve and ORS. v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2026 INSC 355 · [2026] 4 S.C.R. 565
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1893/2026
- Decided
- 10 April 2026
- Bench
- J.K. MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- BNS Section 53, 4; IPC Section 53, 34, 4, 323, 324; CrPC Section 360
Headnote
Whether the Appellants are entitled to the benefit of ss.3 and 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, and if so, to what extent; whether the benefit of s.4 of the 1958 Act is available to an offender who has been sentenced only with payment of fine, and not imprisonment. Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 - ss.3, 4 - Power of court to release certain offenders after admonition or on probation of good conduct - Penal Code, 1860 - s.53 - Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 - s.4 - Benefit of
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