Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 7 · Decided 12 January 1961
Rabia Bai v. The Custodian-General of Evacuee Property
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 7 · [1961] 3 S.C.R. 448
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 22/1956
- Decided
- 12 January 1961
- Bench
- P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, A.K. SARKAR, K. SUBBA RAO, K.N. WANCHOO, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; Constitution
Headnote
Godse v. Stale of lvf aharashtra Subba Rao]. IQ6I fj - ·' January zz. 448 SUPREME COURT REPORTS (1961] The petitioner made an impassioned appeal to us that if such a construction be accepted, he would be at the mercy of the appropriate Government and that the said Government, out of spite, donation of blood. The Constitution as well as the Code of Criminal Procedure confer the power to remit a sentence on the executive Government and it is in its exclusive province. \Ve cannot assume that the appropriate Government will not exercise its jurisdic­ tion in a reasonable manner.
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