No Room To Order Concurrent Running Of Sentences Where Two Offences Have No Connection, Transactions Are Completely Different: Kerala High Court

The Kerala High Court recently ruled that Section 427 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which allows for the concurrent running of sentences, does not apply when a person is convicted for different offences in two separate and unrelated crimes. In this case, Justice C. Jayachandran dismissed the petition of a convict seeking to invoke Section 427 for his sentences to run concurrently, stating that the crimes involved were independent…