New Delhi, Oct. 28 -- 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. A bench of justices KV Viswanathan and Arun Palli set aside a direction requiring a man convicted of rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl to serve two life sentences consecutively, noting such a direction was contrary to the settled legal position laid down by a Constitution bench in 2016. "While multiple sentences for imprisonment for life can be awarded for multiple murders or other offences punishable with i...