{
  "id": 16834126,
  "title": "Multiple life terms cannot run one after another: SC",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/multiple-life-terms-cannot-run-one-after-another-sc",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-28T02:14:40.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Hindustan Times",
    "slug": "hindustan-times",
    "url": "https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/multiple-life-terms-cannot-run-one-after-another-sc-101793126886675.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Supreme Court on Tuesday held that courts cannot direct multiple life terms for different offences in a single trial to run consecutively, ruling that the sentences must instead be superimposed over each other to ensure that remission or commutation granted in one does not automatically extend to the other.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}