Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 470 · Decided 11 September 2003
State of Madhya Pradesh v. Ghanshyam Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 470 · [2003] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 618
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1646/1996
- Decided
- 11 September 2003
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 300, 148, 149, 323
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-Section 300 Exception 4 & Section 304 Part-1- Culpable homicide not amounting to murder-Conviction and sentence­ High Court reducing the sentence to the one already undergone which is C about 2 years-On appeal, held, there should be proportion between crime and time will be counter-productive and against social interest-Passage of time cannotjustifY minimal sentence­ Hence, punishment enhanced to 6 years imprisonment. D Six persons including the respondent armed with different weapons jointly assaulted PWl. Hearing the alarm raised by PWl, the
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