Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Supreme Court on Life Imprisonment

Supreme Court on Life Imprisonment
Shiva Kumar @ Shiva @ Shivamurthy v State of Karnataka [2023] GCtR 699 (SC)

"It is also a settled position that when an offender is sentenced to undergo imprisonment for life, the incarceration can continue till the end of the life of the accused.  However, it is subject to a grant of remission under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ‘Cr.P.C.’) and the Constitutional powers vested in the Hon’ble Governor and the Hon’ble President of India, as the case may be.  While imposing a life sentence, if it is directed that the accused shall not be released   for   a   specific   period,   it   becomes   a   modified punishment.   In such a case, before the expiry of the fixed period provided, the power to grant remission under Cr.P.C. cannot be exercised." 

"Even in a case where capital punishment is not imposed or is not proposed, the Constitutional Courts can always exercise the power of imposing a modified or fixed­term sentence by directing that a life sentence, as contemplated by “secondly” in Section 53 of the IPC, shall be of a fixed period of more than fourteen years, for example, of twenty years, thirty years and so on." 


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