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HC can't suo motu enhance sentence in plea against conviction: SC
short by / on Saturday, 17 May, 2025
The Supreme Court held that in an appeal filed by the accused, the High Court cannot suo motu exercise its revisional jurisdiction to enhance the sentence while maintaining the conviction. The Court set aside the enhanced sentence of life imprisonment in a POCSO case and ordered the man's release by restoring the original sentence, invoking Article 142 of the Constitution.
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