Shersingh vs State Of M.P. on 16 December, 1988
It distinguished the Full Bench decision of the Delhi High Court in Gopal Dass v. State 1978 Cri LJ 961 (supra) holding that the Supreme Court neither in R. P. Kapur v. State of Punjab 1960 Cri LJ 1239 nor in Palaniappa Gounder v. State of Tamil Nadu 1977 Cri LJ 997 (SC) (supra) has gone to the extent in laying down that the inherent powers cannot be exercised at all in such circumstances. The Division Bench also mentioned that it may be that the subsequent convicting Court was not apprised about the existence of the previous sentence. At any rate ordering of sentence to run concurrently does not amount to altering the finding. It may be noted that Section 31 of the Code provides for ordering the .sentences to run concurrently in a given case. Likewise, under Section 427 while awarding a sentence in a subsequent case in respect of the person who is already undergoing sentence in previous case, a discretion is given to the subsequent convicting Court to give such a direction and order the sentence to run concurrently with the previous sentence.