Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 287 · Decided 23 July 1999
Arun Shankar Shukla v. State of U.P. and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 287 · [1999] 3 S.C.R. 1060
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 680/1999
- Decided
- 23 July 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, M.B. SHAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 149, 307; CrPC Section 482
Headnote
Criminal Law : ft. Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 : Section 482 . c High Court-Inherent jurisdiction-Scope and ambit of-Trial court convicted accused and posted the case for hearing on sentence-.But accused, instead of preferring statutory appeal against conviction, filf!d petition under S.482-High provisions of the Code-Expressions D "abuse of the process of law" or "to secure the ends of justice" do not confer unlimited jurisdiction on the High Court-Order of High Court at an uncalled for stage, illegal. E Words and Phrases: "Abuse of the process of law"
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