Supreme Court of India
MILIND S/O ASHRUBA DHANVE AND ORS. versus THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA
2026 INSC 355
Issue for consideration
Whether the Appellants are entitled to the benefit of ss.3 and 4 of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, and if so, to what extent; whether the benefit of s.4 of the 1958 Act is available to an offender who has been sentenced only with payment of fine, and not imprisonment.
Headnote excerpt
Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 – ss.3, 4 – Power of court to release certain offenders after admonition or on probation of good conduct – Penal Code, 1860 – s.53 – Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023 – s.4 – Benefit of
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