Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 768 · Decided 11 November 2014
O.M. Cherian @ Thankachan v. State of Kerala & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 768 · [2014] 11 S.C.R. 140
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2387/2014
- Decided
- 11 November 2014
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL, R. BANUMATHI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 498A, 306; CrPC Section 31
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 31 - Sentences C in cases of conviction of several offences at one trial - To run concurrently or consecutively - Accused-husband convicted u/ss.498 and 306 !PC and sentenced for the respective offences - Direction by courts below that sentences to to - Held: Under Section 31, it is D left to the full discretion of the Court to order the sentences to run concurrently in case of conviction for two or more offences, having regard to the nature of offences and attendant aggravating or mitigating circumstances - In view of the facts and
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