Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 215 · Decided 18 March 2024
Navas @ Mulanavas v. State of Kerala
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 215 · [2024] 3 S.C.R. 913
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1215/2011
- Decided
- 18 March 2024
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SANDEEP MEHTA, K.V. VISWANATHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 449, 309; CrPC Section 428; Evidence Act Section 106
Headnote
Appellant-accused was held guilty for the offences punishable u/ ss.302, 449, 309, IPC and sentenced accordingly. For the offence punishable u/s.302, IPC, he was sentenced to death. High Court confirmed the conviction, however the sentence of death was modified and for life with a direction that he shall not be released from prison for a period of 30 years including the period already undergone with set off u/s.428, Cr.P.C. alone. What should be the appropriate sentence and whether the High Court was justified in adopting the Swamy Shraddananda v.
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