Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 103 · Decided 14 February 2014
V.K. Verma v. Cbi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 103 · [2014] 1 S.C.R. 1063
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 404/2014
- Decided
- 14 February 2014
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, KURIAN JOSEPH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 161, 5; Prevention of Corruption Act Section 5(2)
Headnote
SENTENCE/SENTENCING: A B c Reducing of sentence to a period less than the minimum prescribed -- Conviction u/ss. 5(1) (d) rlw s. 5(2) of 1947 Act ands. 161, /PC - Conviction and sentence of one and half years with fine - Held: Thirty years long delay in the proceedings, three months incarceration, petty amount of bribe would be special reasons for reducing the substantive sentence -- Accordingly, sentence of imprisonment is reduced to the period already undergone and fine enhanced to Rs. 50, 0001- -- Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 -- ulss. 5(1) (d) rlw s. 5(2) - Penal Code, 1860 - s.
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