Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 30 · Decided 16 January 2001
State of Jammu and Kashmir v. Vinay Nanda
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 30 · [2001] 1 S.C.R. 399
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 82/2001
- Decided
- 16 January 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Prevention of Corruption Act
Headnote
B ...,, /' Jammu & Kashmir Prevention of Corruption Act, Svt. 2006: · Section 5(2) proviso-Minimum sentence-Imposition of - Criteria to award-Held: Where there are mitigating circumstances minimum sentence c may be awarded for 'special reasons'- 'Special reasons' have to be .... litigation is not a 'special reason '-Hence, under these circumstances minimum sentence may not be awarded. D Jammu & Kashmir Probation of Offenders Act, 1966: -,.. Section 18-Benefit of probation-Applicability of -Accused convicted under S.5(2) of the J & K Prevention of Corruption Act
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