Supreme Court Partly Allows Appeal in SC/ST Act Case, Reducing Sentence to One Year Rigorous Imprisonment. The Court modified the sentence based on mitigating factors including the dispute's origin over a shop, appellant's age, lack of serious injury, no criminal antecedents, and sentence already undergone, under Sections 3(1)(r) and 3(1)(s) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
19 Jan 2022The appeal concerned the quantum of sentence imposed on the appellant, who was convicted by the Special Court under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled...
