Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 691 · Decided 8 October 2013
Sunil Dutt Sharma v. State (GOVT. of NCT of Delhi)
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 691 · [2013] 9 S.C.R. 1000
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1333/2013
- Decided
- 8 October 2013
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, RANJAN GOGOI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 304, 302; CrPC Section 354(2)
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860: s.304-B - Dowry death - Conviction and sentence of life imprisonment awarded by courts below - Sentence, if excessive or disproportionate - Held: The principles of sentencing evolved by Supreme Court though largely in the D context of death penalty will be applicable sentences so long as the sentencing judge is vested with the discretion to award a lesser or a higher sentence resembling the swing of the pendulum from the minimum to the maximum - Jn the instant case, the proved facts on the basis E of which offence u/s. 304-B was held to be established, while
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