Durga and Ors. v. State
Case brief
What is this about?
In this criminal revision, the High Court reduced the sentences of the four convicted petitioners to the period of custody they had already undergone, maintaining the conviction and the fines while discharging bail bonds.
What did the court decide?
Petitioners' sentences reduced to period already undergone; conviction and fines maintained; bail bonds discharged.
What the court decided
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR
S.B. Criminal Revision Petition No. 966/2005
- Durga s/o Chotu
- Manya s/o Ramkaran
- Amrya s/o Jagannath
All resident of Naee Basti, Khatupura, Police Station, Kotlwali, Sawaimadhopur
- Bherulal s/o Pannalal
Resident of Dhamana, Police Station Fagi, District Jaipur. (At present confined in District Jail - Sawamimadhopur)
----Petitioner
Versus
The State of Rajasthan
----Respondent
For Petitioner(s) : Mr.Tarun Jain For Respondent(s) : Mr.Chandragupt Chopra, PP
Issues for consideration
3 issues framed by the court
Whether the sentences awarded to the revision-petitioners may be reduced to the period of custody already undergone by them.
Whether the suspension of sentence order may be discharged where the sentence is substituted by the period undergone.
How the principles laid down in Alister Anthony Pareira and Haripada Das apply to substitute sentence with period undergone.
Parties & counsel
- petitioner
Durga s/o Chotu
- petitioner
Manya s/o Ramkaran
- petitioner
Amrya s/o Jagannath
- petitioner
Bherulal s/o Pannalal
- respondent
The State of Rajasthan
Case details
As recorded by the court registry
- Court
- Rajasthan HC
- Decided on
- · March
- Registered
- Case no.
- CRLR/966/2005
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