https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=414810 In NDPS sentencing, the court treated the conviction as unchallenged and focused on proportionality of punishment. It reduced the substantive rigorous imprisonment from 15 years to 10 years, relying on the appellants' first-offender status, substantial incarceration already undergone, and comparable sentencing principles applied by the Supreme Court. It also held that imprisonment in default of payment of fine is distinct from the substantive sentence and must be fixed on relevant sentencing considerations, reducing the default term from two years' rigorous imprisonment to one year. The conviction was maintained and relief was limited to sentence modification. en-us Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 06:51:21 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=414810 In NDPS sentencing, the court treated the conviction as unchallenged and focused on proportionality of punishment. It reduced the substantive rigorous imprisonment from 15 years to 10 years, relying on the appellants' first-offender status, substantial incarceration already undergone, and comparable sentencing principles applied by the Supreme Court. It also held that imprisonment in default of payment of fine is distinct from the substantive sentence and must be fixed on relevant sentencing considerations, reducing the default term from two years' rigorous imprisonment to one year. The conviction was maintained and relief was limited to sentence modification. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=414810