Supreme Court · 1953 INSC 29 · Decided 30 March 1953
Poppatlal Shah v. The State of Madras
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1953 INSC 29 · [1953] 1 S.C.R. 677
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 92/1952
- Decided
- 30 March 1953
- Bench
- M. PATANJALI SASTRI, BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, VIVIAN BOSE, GHULAM HASAN, NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 132(1), 134(1)(c)
Headnote
COURT REPOR'I'S 677 this right iu favour of commuting the death sentence to a sentence for life. The denial of this right in the Hegulatiou is discriminatory ou the face of it aud deprives the petitioner of a valuable right. I concede, however, that this objectionable feature of the Regu­ appea,J is allowed, or the sentence is reduced, uo question of the confirm­ ation of the death sentence by the Nizam will arise. If, however, the appeal is dismissed, it will be open to the petitioner to claim this right. It would not be desirable at this stage to express au opinion whether
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