Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1041 · Decided 26 August 2025
Santosh Sahadev Khajnekar v. The State of Goa
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1041 · [2025] 8 S.C.R. 2100
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1991/2023
- Decided
- 26 August 2025
- Bench
- SANJAY KAROL, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 323, 352, 504
Headnote
Whether conviction of appellant for the offences punishable u/s.8 of the Goa Children's Act, 2003 is sustainable; whether the appellant deserves to be given benefit under provisions of Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. Goa Children's Act, 2003 ss.323, 352, 504 - Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 - An FIR came to be lodged against the appellant for the offences punishable u/ss.323, 352 and 504 of the IPC and u/s.8 of the Act of 2003 - Appellant was convicted and sentenced by the President, Children's Court -
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