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Sukhdev Yadav @ Pehalwan v. State of (NCT of Delhi) & Others

Penal Code, 1860

Disposed of
Court
Supreme Court of India
Decided
29 Jul 2025
Citation
[2025] 7 S.C.R. 2012
Case no.
CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 3271/2025
Bench
B.v. Nagarathna, K.v. Viswanathan

Issue for consideration

Whether, an accused/convict who has completed his “life imprisonment for a fixed term” such as twenty years of actual sentence without remission, as in the instant case, is entitled to be released from prison on completion of such a sentence or in other of the fixed term of sentence as aforesaid, should the accused/convict seek remission of his sentence of “life imprisonment” by making an application to the competent authority for seeking “reduction of his sentence”.

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