In Brief
A man convicted of murdering his wife under Section 302 IPC was sentenced to life imprisonment with rigorous imprisonment. He challenged the conviction and sentence in the Supreme Court by Special Leave Petition, arguing that the specification of rigorous imprisonment was improper. The Supreme Court dismissed the petitions, holding that established precedent (Naib Singh v. State of Punjab) definitively settles that life imprisonment under Section 302 must be equated with rigorous imprisonment for life. No re-examination of this settled point was necessary.
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