SARAVANAN . vs STATE TR.SEC. — Crl.A. No. 2080/2009

Summary of Crl.A. No. 002080/2009 (Saravanan v. State TR.SEC.) The Supreme Court granted special leave to appeal and partly allowed the appeal filed by appellants Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 8, who were convicted in 2001 for a July 1998 incident resulting in Sarika Shah's death under IPC Sections 509, 354, and 304 Part II (with Section 34). The Court reduced their sentences from five years' rigorous imprisonment to two years' rigorous imprisonment while maintaining the fine, placing them on similar footing as other appellants whose sentences were similarly reduced in March 2009. The Trial Court judgment dated April 26, 2001 was accordingly modified. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.