Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 482 · Decided 5 August 2010
State of U.P. v. Siya Ram & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 482 · [2010] 9 S.C.R. 687
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 792/2003
- Decided
- 5 August 2010
- Bench
- H.S. BEDI, C.K. PRASAD (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307134, 34
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.307134 - Conviction by trial court of two out of three accused - High Court acquitting one of the appellants before A B c it and reducing the sentence of the other to the period already undergone and imposing a fine of Rs. 10, 0001- - Appeal by State against acquittal as also - HELD: The Court is not inclined to interfere with the acquittal order, keeping in view the propensity to false implications - However, reduction in the sentence of the convict is not approved, though keeping in view the fact that prosecution had been initiated in 1988, the term of
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