Sessions Court Can't Award A Sentence In Between 'Life Imprisonment' And 'Death Sentence' For Murder : Karnataka HC [Read Judgment]

The Karnataka High Court has held that a Sessions Court can only award either life imprisonment or death sentence in a murder case, and has no power to inflict any punishment in between these two punishments. The Division bench comprising Justice K.N. Phaneendra and Justice K. Natarajan was considering a criminal appeal against a Trial Court judgment in which the accused were sentenced...