Supreme Court · 2006 INSC 432 · Decided 14 July 2006
State of Madhya Pradesh v. Santosh Kumar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2006 INSC 432 · [2006] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 548
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 762/2006
- Decided
- 14 July 2006
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, LOKESHWAR SINGH PANTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 342, 375, 376
Headnote
TE OF MAD HY A PRADESH v. SANTOSH KUMAR JULY 14, 2006 [ARJJJTPASAYAT AND LOKESHWARSINGH PANTA,JJ.] Penal Code, 1860; Ss. 342, 375 and 376 with Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 1983: Rape of a minor-Trial Court found accused guilty of offences under Sections 342, 376(2)(/) and sentenced him to of society by stamping out criminal proclivity D must he the object of law which could be acknowledged by imposing appropriate sentence-Sentencing process must be stern where it should be tempered with mercy where it warrants to be-It is the duty of the Court to award proper
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