SC-ST (Prevention Of Atrocities) Act: Sentence Less Than The Minimum Prescribed By The Act Cannot Be Imposed: SC [Read Judgment]

The Supreme Court has observed that a sentence lesser than the minimum sentence prescribed by the statute cannot be imposed. The court was dealing with an appeal against High court order which had reduced a convict's sentence to period already undergone. The Trial Court had convicted Vikram Das for the offence under Section 3(1)(xi) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled...