Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 1128 · Decided 2 November 2007
State of Haryana v. Mahender Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 1128 · [2007] 11 S.C.R. 932
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 30/2005
- Decided
- 2 November 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 433A; Constitution Article 14, 20an, 20, 21
Headnote
t -\ Sentence/Sentencing-Remission of sentence-State classifYing c category of life convicts for pre-mature release by executive instruction-Life convicts, convicted prior to the date of instruction, challenging the classification-High Court holding the classification as uncot:zstitutional-On instruction is permissible-However, the classification will have prospective D operation and would not apply to the convicts in question-The -4 instructions being advisory in nature, would not have force of a l statute-Code of Criminal Procedure; 1973-s. 433A-Punjab Prison Rules-Rules 2, 20
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