Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 892 · Decided 25 July 2025
Satauram Mandavi v. The State of Chhattisgarh & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 892 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 1538
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3179/2025
- Decided
- 25 July 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 6, 376AB; Constitution Article 20(1); POCSO Act Section 6
Headnote
1538 : 2025 INSC 892 Satauram Mandavi v. The State of Chhattisgarh & Anr. (Criminal Appeal No. 3179 of 2025) 25 July 2025 [Vikram Nath* and Sandeep Mehta JJ.] Issue for Consideration Matter pertains to the retrospective application of the amended provision-s.6 POCSO Act, to the incident Retrospective application of the amended provision-s.6, to the incident took place prior to the amendment - Propriety - Commission of offence by the appellant on 20.05.2019 - Amended provision of s.6 POCSO Act, came into force on 16.08.2019 whereby the minimum sentence enhanced
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