Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 240 · Decided 20 February 2019
The State of Madhya Pradesh v. Suresh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 240 · [2019] 5 S.C.R. 836
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 319/2019
- Decided
- 20 February 2019
- Bench
- ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE, DINESH MAHESHWARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 201, 304, 302
Headnote
Sentencing - Principle of Proportionality - Case of the prosecution that the accused-respondent assaulted his father who later succumbed to the injury - Trial Court found the respondent guilty u/s.304 Part II, IPC and awarded him 3 years' rigorous imprisonment period of detention already undergone (3 months, 21 days) against the term of imprisonment imposed on him - High Court though upheld the conviction of the respondent but modified the sentence of 3 years' rigorous imprisonment to that of the period already undergone i.e. 3 months and
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