Magistrate Shall Specify Whether Sentences Awarded Would Run Concurrently Or Consecutively in The Order: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

15 Feb 2019 7:42 PM IST

“It was necessary for the Magistrate to have specified in the order by taking recourse to Section 31 of the Code as to whether the punishment of sentence of imprisonment so awarded by her for each offence would run concurrently or consecutively.”

The Supreme Court has held that it is a mandatory legal requirement to specify whether sentences awarded to an accused convicted for two or more offences, would run concurrently or consecutively. In this case Magistrate convicted Gagan Kumar under Sections 279 and 304A of the Indian Penal Code. For Section 279 IPC, he was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for six months and for...

Magistrate Shall Specify Whether Sentences Awarded Would Run Concurrently Or Consecutively in The Order: SC [Read Judgment]

Ashok Kini

“It was necessary for the Magistrate to have specified in the order by taking recourse to Section 31 of the Code as to whether the punishment of sentence of imprisonment so awarded by her for each offence would run concurrently or consecutively.”

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