negative. We hold that while multiple sentences for
imprisonment for life can be awarded for multiple murders or
other offences punishable with imprisonment for life, the life
sentences so awarded cannot be directed to run consecutively.
Such sentences would, however, be super imposed over each
other so that any remission or commutation granted by the
competent authority in one does not ipso facto result in
remission of the sentence awarded to the prisoner for the other.
REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NOS.231-233 OF 2009
MUTHURAMALINGAM & ORS. V STATE REP. BY INSP. OF POLICE
Dated:July 19, 2016
Citation:AIR 2016 SC 3340
