SC issues notice to Centre on tenure of jail term for life convict

August 22, 2014 19:15

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a plea of a life convict alleging that definition of life sentence till death is violative of the Constitution and issued notice to the Centre.

"Definition of life sentence till death is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India as the reading of Sections 57 and 58 of IPC which was amended in the year 1956 clearly distinguishes the same and therefore, the sentence of whole life is further violative of Article 21 of the Constitution," the petition said.

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