The Supreme Court has reiterated that it cannot invoke Article 142 of the Constitution to reduce a sentence below the statutory minimum prescribed by law. The ruling came in Dashrath vs. State of Maharashtra [Criminal Appeal No. ____ of 2025, arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 13997 of 2024], where a Bench comprising Justice Dipankar
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