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Case Name : Harjibhai Devjibhai Chauhan Vs State of Gujarat (Supreme Court of India)
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Supreme Court of India
Held – Where the minimum sentence is provided, we think it would not be at all appropriate to exercise jurisdiction under Article 142 of the Constitution of India to reduce the sentence on the ground of the so-called mitigating factors as that would tantamount to supplanting statutory mandate and further it would amount to ignoring the substantive statutory provision that prescribes minimum sentence for a criminal act relating to demand and acceptance of bribe. The amount may be small but to curb and repress this kind of proclivity the legislature has prescribed the minimum sentence. It...
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Judiciary should punish both the giver and taker of money. A very good Judgement. should remembered by ALL.
CA.Subhash Chandra Podder , FCA
Kolkata
31/05/2012