Venkatesh vs State 2025 INSC 1383 - IPC- TNPPDL Act- Conviction Upheld- Sentence Reduced
Indian Penal Code 1860 - Section 326; TNPPDL Act -Section 3- The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of accused and another under Section 326 IPC and Section 3(1) of the but reduced their five-year sentence to the period already undergone, noting they had served about two years and three months.
Case Info
Case Details
- Case name: Venkatesh & Another v. State represented by the Inspector of Police
- Neutral citation: 2025 INSC 1383
- Coram: Justice B.V. Nagarathna; Justice Prasanna B. Varale
- Judgment date: December 2, 2025
- Disposition: Conviction upheld; sentence reduced to period already undergone; release forthwith
Statutes / Laws Referred
- Indian Penal Code, 1860: Section 326
- Tamil Nadu Property (Prevention of Damage and Loss) Act, 1992: Section 3(1)
- Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Section 428
Caselaws and Citations
- No prior case laws or judicial precedents are cited in the text of this judgment.
- Proceedings references:
- Sessions Case No. 460/2016 (III-Additional District and Sessions Judge, Salem)
- Madras High Court Criminal Appeal No. 481/2020 (judgment dated 07.02.2023)
- SLP (Crl.) No. 19524/2025 arising out Diary No. 52993/2024; converted to Criminal Appeal No. 5156/2025 (notice limited to sentence on 17.01.2025)
