Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 457 · Decided 17 July 2020
Pyare Lal v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 457 · [2020] 6 S.C.R. 249
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1003/2017
- Decided
- 17 July 2020
- Bench
- UDAY UMESH LALIT, MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR, VINEET SARAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 302; CrPC Section 433; Constitution Article 161
Headnote
Constitution of India: Art. 161 - Remission of sentence under - On the basis of policy framed by the executive - Relevant material not placed before the Governor and benefit in each of the cases was conferred by the executive itself in terms of the policy - Propriety of the Supreme Court by larger Benches show that relevant material must be placed before the Governor in order to enable him to exercise the power u/Art. 161 and failure on that count could result in quashing of the order of remission - The Constitution Bench in Maru Ram Case had observed that
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