Raj Kumar vs The State Of Uttar Pradesh on 4 October, 2019
12. The last submission of the counsel was that this Court may
follow what was done in Santosh Kumar vs. Municipal
Corporation and Anr.16, where under similar circumstances the
sentence of six months imprisonment was commuted and the
State Government was directed to pass formal orders of
commutation. It appears that the Bench in Santosh Kumar’s
case (supra) followed the judgment in N. Sukumaran Nair vs.
16(2000) 9 SCC 151
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Food Inspector, Mavelikara17, and we find that in both these
cases there is no discussion of scope and ambit of Section 433 of
the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (for short the Cr.PC). We are,
therefore, of the view that these judgments are per incuriam and
do not lay down any legal proposition that provisions of Section
433 of Cr.PC can be invoked in such cases.