Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1319 · Decided 17 December 2009
Sheetala Prasad and ORS. v. Sri Kant and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1319 · [2009] 16 S.C.R. 686
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 2420/2009
- Decided
- 17 December 2009
- Bench
- R.V. RAVEENDRAN, J.M. PANCHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 308, 149, 324; CrPC Section 401, 401(3)
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.401 - Revisional ... jurisdiction - Exercise of, by High Court at the instance of c private complainant - Scope - Held: Revisional jurisdiction, when invoked by a private complainant against an order of acquittal, cannot be exercised lightly and can be cases where interest of public justice require interference for correction of manifest illegality or D prevention of gross miscarriage of justice - In such cases, or cases of similar nature, retrial or rehearing of the appeal may be ordered - On facts, High Court exercised revisional
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