Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 453 · Decided 5 October 2012
Shahejadkhan Mahebubkhan Pathan v. State of Gujarat
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 453 · [2012] 8 S.C.R. 1177
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1592/2012
- Decided
- 5 October 2012
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 63to70; CrPC Section 30; NDPS Act Section 8(c), 21, 29
Headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985 B - ss. B(c), 21 and 29 - Accused-appellants convicted by courts below for carrying commercial quantity of brown sugar C (narcotic substance) and sentenced to RI for 15 years - Prayer before Supreme Court for reduction of the sentence - Held: and there was no past antecedent about their involvement in offence of like nature on earlier occasions - In view of the same, while o confirming the conviction of appellants, their sentence reduced to 10 years, the minimum prescribed sentence under the relevant provisions of the Act -
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