Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 298 · Decided 25 May 2021
Sunil Kumar @ Sudhir Kumar & ANR. v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 298 · [2021] 6 S.C.R. 630
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 526/2021
- Decided
- 25 May 2021
- Bench
- DINESH MAHESHWARI, ANIRUDDHA BOSE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 31(1), 220
Headnote
Sentence/Sentencing: Sentences to run concurrently or consecutively - Duty of Court of first instance to specify - Held: It is legally obligatory upon the court of first instance while awarding multiple punishments of imprisonment terms as to whether the sentences would run concurrently or consecutively - If the Court of first instance does not specify the concurrent running of sentences, the inference, primarily, is that the Court intended such sentences to run consecutively, though, the Court of first instance
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