Supreme Court Dismisses State Appeal in Habeas Corpus Case Involving Remission and Concurrent Sentences. The Court upheld the High Court's writ of habeas corpus, finding that a convict's continued detention after remission of a life sentence was illegal as his separate one-year sentence for kidnapping ran concurrently under Section 427 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, and he had already served it.
28 Apr 2023The Supreme Court dealt with an appeal by the State of Andhra Pradesh challenging a High Court order that issued a writ of habeas corpus directing the...
