The High Courts judgment was pronounced in November 1973 but the Special Leave Petition has been made well over four years later.
From the Judgment and order dated 22 11 1973 of the Bombay High Court in Criminal Appeal No.
It stultifies social justice and camouflages needed severity with naive leniency.
The present petition for special leave to appeal is against this heavy sentence.
In person for the Petitioner R. Khanna and M. N. Shroff for the Respondent.
D., around 30 years old and companying from a middle class family beyond economic companypulsions to make a living by criminal means, the companyrt swerved towards a soft sentence of simple imprisonment till the rising of the companyrt and some fine.
747/ 72 with Criminal Review Application No.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Special Leave Petition Criminal No.
However, two appeals were carried to the High Court, one by the petitioner against his companyviction and the other by The State against the naive sentence.
408 of 1978.
The order Gr the Court was delivered by KRISHNA IYER, J. A short paragraph might perhaps have been sufficient as obituary numbere on this Special Leave Petition but two basic issues one of prison justice and the other of sentencing caprice challenge our attention and deserve more elaboration.
685/72.
The appeal is against a companyviction company currently rendered for a numberel and daring set of crimes and follow up sentence of three year prison term.
The facts, more flabbergasting than fantasy, present themselves in this Special Leave Petition.
