Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 284 · Decided 27 February 2009
Sahdev v. Jaibar @ Jai Dev & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 284 · [2009] 3 S.C.R. 722
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 403/2009
- Decided
- 27 February 2009
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 326, 34
Headnote
Criminal Law: c Sentencing - HELD: It is duty of court to award proper sentence having regard to nature of offence and the manner in which it was committed - Undue sympathy to impose inadequate sentence would do more harm - In the instant D case, accused mercilessly beat the victims and one of Court though upheld conviction uls .~ 307 but without assigning any reason reduced the sentence from 10 years to 7 years - Sentence of 10 years restored as regards the accused who caused injuries to the victim E resulting in loss of his memory - Penal Code, 1860 - ss. 307 and 326 rlw s.34. The
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