Only 4 Months Jail For Killing Own Father? SC Restores Sentence Of 3 Years RI [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

21 Feb 2019 2:21 PM IST

“The observations of the High Court that no useful purpose would be served by detention of the accused cannot be approved in this case for the reason that the objects of deterrence as also protection of society are not lost with mere passage of time”

The Supreme Court has restored rigorous imprisonment of 3 years awarded to a man by trial court for killing his own father by setting aside the High Court judgment which had reduced the same to the period of imprisonment already undergone (3 months 21 days). The bench observed that the High Court was not justified in reducing the sentence to an abysmally inadequate period of less than...

Only 4 Months Jail For Killing Own Father? SC Restores Sentence Of 3 Years RI [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

“The observations of the High Court that no useful purpose would be served by detention of the accused cannot be approved in this case for the reason that the objects of deterrence as also protection of society are not lost with mere passage of time”

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