The Supreme Court Thursday held that default sentences cannot be directed to run concurrently, as it may defeat the very objective of the punishment.
A bench of Justices A M Sapre and U U Lalit said, "If imposition of fine and prescription of mandatory minimum is designed to achieve a specific purpose, the very objective will get defeated if the default sentences were directed to run concurrently."
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