Supreme Court Issues Guidelines On Disposing Cases Through Plea Bargaining, Compounding Of Offences & Probation Of Offenders Act
Live LawThe Supreme Court, in an order passed last month, issued the following guidelines for disposal of criminal cases by resorting to the triple method of plea bargaining, compounding of offences and under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958.As a pilot case, one Court each of Ld. The Supreme Court, in an order passed last month, issued the following guidelines for disposal of criminal cases by resorting to the triple method of plea bargaining, compounding of offences and under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958. The High Court along with the High Court Legal Services Authority can make a list of cases with the following details: i) Offences for which a convict has been sentenced and sentence imposed; ii) Sentence undergone by the convict; If the convict is in jail and has undergone 40% of the sentence, his case can be taken up by the District Legal Services Authority. The said plea bargaining will not be available where the law provides for a minimum sentence to be undergone by the accused, for example under the NDPS Act or UAPA Act similar such Acts ]" "Learned counsel having taken us through the suggestions, we give our imprimatur to the same and direct the State Governments and Legal Services Authorities to act in tandem to implement these suggestions and give a report to this Court a week before the next date to the Amicus Curiae who would thereafter submit the summarised version of the report", the court said.
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