Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 49 · Decided 26 April 1983
Ranjan Dwivedi v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 49 · [1983] 2 S.C.R. 982
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 1792/1981
- Decided
- 26 April 1983
- Bench
- R.S. PATHAK, A.P. SEN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 304(1), 304; Constitution Article 22(1), 32
Headnote
DWIVEDi v. UNION OF INDIA April 26, 1983 [R. S. PATHAK AND A. P. SEN, JJ.) Criminal Proceedings-Art. 22(1) and Art. 39·A of Constitution of India­ Accused facing Criminal trial not entitled to engage counsel of his choice at State expense-c-l;lis remedy _ii to make application for being conducted by a galaxy of lawyers specially engaged by the State on large sums of fee but he did not have the means to engage a competent lawyer for his defence; that no lawyer of sufficient standing would find it possible to appear as amicus curiae on a fee of Rs. 24 per day fixed by the
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