Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 141 · Decided 5 May 1976
State of Madhya Pradesh v. Ratan Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 141 · [1976] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 552
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 246/1971
- Decided
- 5 May 1976
- Bench
- A.C. GUPTA, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 401, 402
Headnote
Code of c·rin1inal Procedu.re-Ss. 401 and 40-2-Convicted for impriMnn1e11t for life by one State-Priso_ner transferred to his native State-Appropriate Gorenunent which could remit sentence. The respondent was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for life by a court in the State· State of Punjab, to which State he belonged. He applied to the Government of Punjab that under the Punjab Jail Manual he is entitled to be released since he had completed more than 20 years of imprisonment. The applicition was sent to the Government of Madhya Pradesh, which rejected it. In a writ
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