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SC: Lenient Sentence for Brutal Attack Set Aside(18.02.2026)

SC held Madras HC acted in “complete defiance of the law” by reducing sentence for accused who caused “multiple life-threatening stab injuries”. Held .....

Tags : Rigorous imprisonment, Lenient Sentence, Grave offences

Odisha POCSO Court Sentences Man to 20 Years Rigorous Imprisonment for Rape of 10 Year Old(01.11.2022)

Odisha POCSO Court has convicted a man and sentenced him to undergo rigorous imprisonment for twenty years in a 2018 rape case which took place in the.....

Tags : Odisha POCSO Court, Rape, Rigorous Imprisonment

Ker. HC: Violating the Procedure for Sampling Contraband u/s 53A of Abkari Act Vitiates Prosecution(17.09.2025)

Kerala High Court acquitted a man sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment for alleged possession and manufacture of arrack, noting the prosecut.....

Tags : Contraband, Abkari Act, Rigorous Imprisonment

Bombay HC Reduces Life Sentence of Man Who Killed Wife in Sudden Quarrel Over Improperly Cooked Meat(08.12.2022)

Bombay High Court while reducing the sentence of a man who killed his wife over improperly cooking meat, has held that it was a case of sudden quarrel.....

Tags : Bombay High Court, Life Sentence, Rigorous Imprisonment, Wife, Sudden Quarrel

SC Rejects Accused’s Plea of Reducing Sentence in POCSO Case(28.05.2025)

Supreme Court while dismissing petition seeking reduction of 20-year rigorous imprisonment granted to accused under POCSO Act, 2012 has stated that 20.....

Tags : Supreme Court, Rigorous Imprisonment, Section 6

SC: Can ‘Rigorous’ Be Added By Courts When They Award Life Imprisonment?(21.12.2016)

Supreme Court has agreed to examine the question whether Courts are statutorily empowered to make life imprisonments tougher for convicts by adding ‘r.....

Tags : Supreme Court, life imprisonments, rigorous