{"id":124964,"date":"1983-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1983-02-02T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-gujarat-vs-v-a-chauhan-on-3-february-1983"},"modified":"2015-04-17T02:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T21:28:20","slug":"state-of-gujarat-vs-v-a-chauhan-on-3-february-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/state-of-gujarat-vs-v-a-chauhan-on-3-february-1983","title":{"rendered":"State Of Gujarat vs V.A. Chauhan on 3 February, 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">State Of Gujarat vs V.A. Chauhan on 3 February, 1983<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: AIR 1983 SC 359, 1983 (1) SCALE 716, (1983) 2 SCC 64<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: O C Reddy, S M Ali<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER <\/p>\n<p>1. In this case the only point involved is as to whether the provisions of Probation of Offenders Act would apply to the present case where the respondent was convicted under Sections 409, 467 and 471 IPC and Section 5(1)(C) read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act. The High Court gave the benefit of the Probation of Offenders Act to the accused and since last six years the respondent is enjoying this benefit. The matter seems to be concluded by the decision of this Court  where it has been held that the benefit of Probation of offenders Act cannot be given to an accused convicted of an offence punishable with imprisonment for life. We entirely agree with this decision and hold that the Probation of Offenders Act is not applicable, but in the instant case, as the respondents has already been given the benefit of Probation of Offenders Act, we do not think it is in the interest of justice to interfere with it at this stage, after so many years. The appeal is accordingly dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India State Of Gujarat vs V.A. Chauhan on 3 February, 1983 Equivalent citations: AIR 1983 SC 359, 1983 (1) SCALE 716, (1983) 2 SCC 64 Bench: O C Reddy, S M Ali ORDER 1. In this case the only point involved is as to whether the provisions of Probation of Offenders Act [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supreme-court-of-india"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State Of Gujarat vs V.A. 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