Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 341 · Decided 29 July 2003
Sanaboina Satyanarayana v. Government of Andhra Pradesh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 341 · [2003] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 874
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1227/2002
- Decided
- 29 July 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, H.K. SEMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 376, 354, 498A, 302, 55; CrPC Section 55; Constitution Article 14, 161
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 14 and 161--Government Order-Remission of sentence to life C convict-Benefit not granted to certain categories-One being prisoner convicted for crime against women such as Sections 376 and 354-Conviction under Sections 302, 498A and 201-Convic:t pleading that to the benefit of the Order-Justification of-Held: After the provisions of the Penal Code words D 'suoh as' is by way of illustration of excepted category of offences relating ,. to crime against women in general and not exhaustive, thus plea not justified and rightly rejected by High
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