Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 969 · Decided 29 July 2025
Sukhdev Yadav @ Pehalwan v. State of (Nct of Delhi) & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 969 · [2025] 7 S.C.R. 2012
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3271/2025
- Decided
- 29 July 2025
- Bench
- B.V. NAGARATHNA, K.V. VISWANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 53, 57; CrPC Section 432, 433; Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Whether, an accused/convict who has completed his "life imprisonment for a fixed term" such as twenty years of actual sentence without remission, as in the instant case, is entitled to be released from prison on completion of such a sentence or in other of the fixed term of sentence as aforesaid, should the accused/convict seek remission of his sentence of "life imprisonment" by making an application to the competent authority for seeking "reduction of his sentence". Penal Code, 1860 - ss.53,
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