Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 227 · Decided 1 March 2016
State of M.P. v. Udaibhan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 227 · [2016] 1 S.C.R. 1080
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 182/2016
- Decided
- 1 March 2016
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, SHIVA KIRTI SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 326, 326134, 34, 323
Headnote
1S.C.R.1080 STATE OF M.P. v. UDAIBHAN (Criminal Appeal No. 182 of 2016 etc.) MARCH 01, 2016 [DIPAK MISRA AND SHIVA KIRTI SINGH, JJ.) Sentence !Sentencing - Conviction of one accused inter alia u!s. 307 !PC and other tll'o accused u!s. 307/3./ !PC - Sentence of C JO years RI - High Court altered of rhe court awarding sentence to ensure jusrice to both the parties - ·Undue leniency in awarding sentence needs to be avoided - Reducing of sentence by High Court in absence of D any mitigating circumstance, suffers from the vice of being over; lenient - Sentence is altered to three
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