Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 240 · Decided 18 May 2012
State of Rajasthan v. Vinod Kumar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 240 · [2012] 6 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1887/2008
- Decided
- 18 May 2012
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC
Headnote
PENAL CODE, 1860: A B ss. 376 and 37611208 - Minimum prescribed sentence - c Conviction and sentence of 7 yeas of RI awarded by trial court to both the accused - High Court reducing the sentence to 5 years in case of main accused and to the period already undergone (11 months and 25 days) in case pleaded only for 0 reduction of punishment, but the Public Prosecutor vehemently opposed the prayer - Though the High Court further took note that awarding punishment lesser than the minimum sentence of 7 years was permissible only for adequate and special reasons, no such reasons have been
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