Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 996 · Decided 26 August 2014
State of Madhya Pradesh v. Bablu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 996 · [2014] 9 S.C.R. 467
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1845/2014
- Decided
- 26 August 2014
- Bench
- M.Y. EQBAL, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 323, 354
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: A 8 ss. 354 and 323 - Accus_ed outraging the modesty of a c woman - Conviction and sentence of six months imprisonment by trial court - High Court maintaining the conviction but reducing the sentence to the period undergone i.e. 21 days - Held: High Court in a very casual manner that the accused D is first offender - If such a view is taken, the accused, who commit such offences, will be emboldened and repeat such crime, which is totally detrimental to the society - Impugned order of High Court reducing the sentence is set aside and, to avoid miscarriage of justice,
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