{"id":14981,"date":"1912-08-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1912-08-27T18:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/suknandan-singh-vs-emperor-on-28-august-1912"},"modified":"2017-03-31T10:31:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T05:01:30","slug":"suknandan-singh-vs-emperor-on-28-august-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/suknandan-singh-vs-emperor-on-28-august-1912","title":{"rendered":"Suknandan Singh vs Emperor on 28 August, 1912"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Calcutta High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Suknandan Singh vs Emperor on 28 August, 1912<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 17 Ind Cas 531<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Carnduff, Imam<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p>1. Two sentences, each of six months&#8217; imprisonment, passed simultaneously under Section 35 of the Criminal Procedure Code of 1898 and directed to run concurrently cannot, in our opinion, be held to be, in the aggregate, a single sentence of one year&#8217;s imprisonment. The word &#8220;aggregate&#8221; in Sub-section (3) of the section connotes the combined effect of the different sentences passed and, if two concurrent sentences could properly be said to be aggregated in the sense of being merged together, the result of the so-called aggregation would, we think, be a single sentence of six months&#8217; imprisonment. The intention which is to be gathered from, for example, Section 411 of the Code, is that a person who is to suffer by being imprisoned for more than a certain period shall have the privilege of an appeal. If he is, in fact, to be imprisoned for a shorter period, whether under one or two sentences, we do not understand how the privilege can, or why it should, be extended to him.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. This appeal is, therefore, incompetent and dismissed accordingly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calcutta High Court Suknandan Singh vs Emperor on 28 August, 1912 Equivalent citations: 17 Ind Cas 531 Bench: Carnduff, Imam JUDGMENT 1. Two sentences, each of six months&#8217; imprisonment, passed simultaneously under Section 35 of the Criminal Procedure Code of 1898 and directed to run concurrently cannot, in our opinion, be held to be, in [&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":[22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calcutta-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Suknandan Singh vs Emperor on 28 August, 1912 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/suknandan-singh-vs-emperor-on-28-august-1912\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Suknandan Singh vs Emperor on 28 August, 1912 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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