Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 413 · Decided 9 May 2024
Rajendra Bhagwanji Umraniya v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 413 · [2024] 6 S.C.R. 698
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2481/2024
- Decided
- 9 May 2024
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 325, 147, 148, 149, 427, 323, 506(2), 384; CrPC Section 357
Headnote
Respondents herein were convicted by the Sessions Court for offence punishable u/s. 325 IPC and were sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment of five years. However, the High Court reduced the sentence of five years to four years and further held that if an amount of of the two respondents, then the respondents need not undergo even the four years of sentence. The question falls for consideration is whether the procedure adopted by the High Court could be said to be in accordance with law. Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s. 357 -
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