Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 2 · Decided 11 January 1988
Subhash Chand v. State of Haryana and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 2 · [1988] 2 S.C.R. 556
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 745/1987
- Decided
- 11 January 1988
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, B.C. RAY, K. JAGANNATHA SHETTY (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 30; Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Punjab Borstal Act, 1926: ss. 5 and 2(4)(i)(a)-Adolescent con­ victed for offence of murder and sentenced to imprisonment for life-; Whether entitled to the benefit of the Act. Section S of the Punjab Borstal Act, 1926 empowers courts to pass a sentence of detention in a Borstal institution in of an offence, in lieu of transportation or rigorous imprisonment, Section 2(4)(i)(a) of the Act D which defines 'offence' takes in offences other than an offence punish­ able with death, In his writ petition under Article 32 of the Constitution, the petitioner who has been convicted for
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