Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 980 · Decided 4 July 2014
State Through C.B.I., Anti Corruption Branch, Chandigarh v. Sanjiv Bhalla & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 980 · [2014] 6 S.C.R. 1078
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1338/2014
- Decided
- 4 July 2014
- Bench
- RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI, MADAN B. LOKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420; CrPC Section 360, 361; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 13(2)
Headnote
C Probation of Offenders Act, 1958: Held: A person convicted under the provisions of the PC Act cannot be granted benefit of release on probation of good conduct u/ s. 360 of the Code of Criminal Procedure or under the provisions of the Probation of Offenders of D Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.360. Criminal jurisprudence: Sentence - Just sentencing - Held: Punishment should be rehabilitative and humanizing and need not necessarily be retributive in character - Judges E have to strike a fine balance between releasing a convict after admonition or on
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