2024 INSC 806 Reportable IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.4307 OF 2024 (Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No.6166 of 2023) Mafabhai Motibhai Sagar … Appellant versus State of Gujarat & Ors. … Respondents J U D G M E N T ABHAY S. OKA, J. 1. Leave granted. 2. The issue involved in this appeal is as regards the legality of the conditions imposed while remitting the life sentence of the appellant in the exercise of powers under sub­section (1) of Section 432 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (for short, ‘the CrPC’). There is an identical provision in the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short, ‘the BNSS’) in the form of sub­section (1) of Section 473. FACTUAL ASPECTS 3. The appellant was convicted for the offence punishable under Section 302 read with Sections 147 and 148 of the Indian Criminal Appeal @ Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No.6166 of 2023 Page 1 of 17Penal Code, 1860 (for short, ‘the IPC’) and was