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Azharuddin Qureshi v. the Union of India (N.I.a.)
Patna HCCR. APP (DB)/757/2021
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
The Patna High Court disposed of six criminal appeals and a death reference arising from the 2013 Patna serial bomb blasts. The court held that the Trial Court erred in awarding death sentences to four accused persons, finding materials on reformation were insufficient. Death sentences were commuted to fixed terms of 30 years, while life sentences for the other two appellants were upheld.
What did the court decide?
Death sentences of four appellants commuted to fixed term of 30 years imprisonment; appeals dismissed; disposal of death reference by conversion of sentences.