New Delhi, Jan. 8 -- The Supreme Court has suspended the seven-year jail term of a man convicted of counterfeiting currency, saying it was "thoroughly disappointed" with the Madhya Pradesh High Court for rejecting his plea for suspension of sentence without recording reasons and for failing to follow settled principles of law.

A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan recently lamented that the high court's January 29, 2025 order neither reflected what weighed with the court nor applied binding precedents governing suspension of sentence in cases involving fixed-term imprisonment.

"We are thoroughly disappointed with the impugned order passed by the High Court," the bench said. "First, the impugned order could be said to be a ...