Vishalkumar Madine Gautam v. the State of Maharashtra
Case brief
What is this about?
Single-judge High Court of Bombay criminal applications by convicted applicants seeking sentence reduction or expedited hearing of appeals were partly allowed; applications for sentence reduction dismissed but hearings expedited as jail appeals.
What did the court decide?
Applications to reduce sentence dismissed; requests for expeditious hearing of criminal appeals allowed and are placed in jail appeals category.