Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 703 · Decided 14 May 2025
Nagarajan & ANR. v. The State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 703 · [2025] 6 S.C.R. 471
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1390/2025
- Decided
- 14 May 2025
- Bench
- DIPANKAR DATTA, MANMOHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; Constitution Article 20
Headnote
Whether the benefit of the provisions of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 can be granted to the appellants; if the answer to the aforesaid issue is in the negative, can the reduced sentence that the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Act envisages be imposed on the Adulteration Act, 1954 - s.20AA - Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 - s.97 - Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 - Offences under the PoFA Act took place in 2001 and 1985 - Appellants were convicted and sentenced - Mollification of sentence sought by the
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