The Supreme Court today(October 27) expressed dismay at an order passed by the Madhya Pradesh High Court which suspended the sentences of two murder convicts on the condition to plant 10 saplings each as a matter of social cause.

A bench comprising Justice Aravind Kumar and Justice NV Anjaria set aside the April 29 order passed by Justice Anand Pathak and Justice Hirdesh of the High Court in an a pplication under Section 389(1) of the CrPC for the suspension of jail sentence and the grant of bail. The two accused persons were convicted in 2023 by the Trial Court under Sections 302(murder) and 341(punishment for wrongful restraint) of the IPC.

At the outset, Justice Kumar remarked: " On granting of suspension, the judge says you do the plantation? What is this? We will set asid

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