Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 206 · Decided 23 August 1991
Ranjit Singh v. Union Territory of Chandigarh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 206 · [1991] 3 S.C.R. 742
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 116/1990
- Decided
- 23 August 1991
- Bench
- M.N. VENKATACHALIAH, N.D. OJHA, J.S. VERMA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 303; CrPC Section 427(2), 427, 433A; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Code of Criminal P1:ocedure, 1973: Ss. 427, 433A-Life convict -Convicted of another murder---,Subsequent sentence of life imprison- ment-Whether superimposition to the earlier life sentence-Remissions c or commutation in respect of earlier sentence-Whether available ipso facto in respect of second murder-Conviction-Imposition of Life sentence-Whether both life sentences to run concurrently. D Constitution of India: Article 32-0ffender-Separately senten- ced to life imprisonment for two different offences under section 302 !PC-Court's direction that in case of remissions or commutation
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