Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 886 · Decided 2 December 2015
Union of India v. V. Sriharan @ Murugan & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 886 · [2015] 14 S.C.R. 613
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 48/2014
- Decided
- 2 December 2015
- Bench
- H.L. DATTU, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, UDAY UMESH LALIT, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Reference answered
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 53; CrPC Section 432, 433, 4321433, 432(7), 432(1), 435(1), 435(1)(a); Constitution Article 161, 72, 73(1)(a), 73(i)(a), 162
Headnote
613 UNION OF INDIA v. V. SRI HARAN@ MURUGAN & ORS. (Writ Petition (Crl.) No. 48 of 2014) DECEMBER 02, 2015 [H. L. DATTU, CJI, FAKKIR MOHAMED IBRAHIM KALIFULLA, PINAKI CHANDRA GHOSE, ABHAY MANOHAR SAPRE AND UDAY UMESH LAUT, JJ.) A B c Penal Code, 1860 - s. 53 r/w s.45 - Whether imprisonment as per the principles enunciated in paras 91 to 93 of Swamy Shraddananda (2) case, a special category of sentence may be made for the very few cases where the death penalty might be substituted by the punishment of imprisonment for life or imprisonment for a term in excess of E fourteen
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