In Brief
Gagan Kumar was convicted under Sections 279 and 304A of the Indian Penal Code and sentenced to six months and two years rigorous imprisonment respectively. The Judicial Magistrate failed to specify whether these sentences would run concurrently or consecutively, as mandated by Section 31 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. The High Court dismissed the revision petition without correcting this procedural error. The Supreme Court partly allowed the appeal, upholding the conviction but modifying the sentences to run concurrently, finding the omission was a legal deficiency that should have been corrected by lower courts.
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