Multiple life sentences cannot run one after another, rules Supreme Court

The Supreme Court has held that courts cannot order multiple life terms from a single trial to run consecutively; they must be superimposed instead. A bench of Justices KV Viswanathan and Arun Palli set aside such a direction for Raju Shantaram Koli, convicted for the 2010 rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl, citing a 2016 Constitution bench ruling.