Ashok Kumar Alias Golu vs Union Of India And Ors on 10 July, 1991
84. Whilst it is true that the law gives the discretion to the criminal
court to direct the sentences for different offences on which conviction
has been recorded in the same trial against the same accused, to run
concurrently or consecutively (Section 31 Cr. PC), it has to be borne in
mind that "imprisonment for life", as is one of the sentence awarded
here, has all along been understood to mean and construed as
imprisonment for "the full and complete span of life". [Ashok Kumar
@ Golu Vs. Union of India, (1991) 3 SCC 498].