Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 45 · Decided 15 January 2015
State of Punjab v. Bawa Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 45 · [2015] 1 S.C.R. 709
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 90/2015
- Decided
- 15 January 2015
- Bench
- M.Y. EQBAL, KURIAN JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 326
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing - Sentence of one and half years for conviction u/s 326 /PC - Reduced by Revisional Court to A B the period already undergone (about 4 months) - Propriety C of - Held: It is duty of the Court to award proper sentence having regard to the nature of offence - Undue sympathy by system to undermine the public confidence - High Court, without appreciation of the evidence and consideration of the D gravity of the offence has taken lenient view and shown undue sympathy- Matter remitted to High Court to pass order afresh in revision petition - Penal Code, 1860 - s.326.
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