Supreme Court of India
Jitendra @ Kalla v. State of Govt. of Nct of Delhi
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What the Court ordered
We are of the considered view that to meet the ends of justice, the cap of 30 years must be removed.
Judgment, page 17
From the headnote
Sentence/Sentencing: Trial of the appellant-accused for offence under two FIRs – Trial court convicted the accused – In both the cases sentence of rigorous life imprisonment was imposed – In respect of the first case trial court directed that the accused would not be considered for grant of remission till he underwent the actual sentence of 30 years – In respect of the second case trial court directed that the life sentence would start after the life sentence in first case was over and was to continue for the rest of the life of the accused – In High Court counsel for the accused stated that…
Authorities it was built on
- 1982 State of Maharashtra v. Ramdas Shrinivas Nayak & Anr.
- 2009 Jameel v. State of U.P.
- 2007 Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra v. State of Karnataka
- 2014 Sumer Singh v. Surajbhan Singh and Others
- 2014 Birju v. State of M.P.
- 2016 Muthuramalingam & Ors. v. State Represented by Inspector of Police
- 2016 Muthuramalingam & Ors. v. State Represented by Inspector of Police
- 2007 State of Madhya Pradesh v. Babulal
- 2012 Jeetu @ Jitendera & Ors. v. State of Chhattisgarh
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