Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 831 · Decided 15 July 2008
State of Himachal Pradesh v. Shish Ram
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 831 · [2008] 10 S.C.R. 994
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1091/2008
- Decided
- 15 July 2008
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, P. SATHASIVAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 420, 467, 468, 471
Headnote
J udgment!Order: Non-reasoned order -· Sustainability +- of - Held: Absence of reasons renders the order, not sustain- '~ c able. ~ The Trial Court passed an order of a<:quittal. State filed application for grant of leave to file appeal which was dismissed. In appeal to this Court, stand ,, D c4 I cation was disposed of by non-speaking fOrder. ' Allowing the appeal, the Court ' HELD: 1. Reasons introduce clarity in an ord~r. On r ~ plainest consideration of justice, the High Court ought to ; E I have set forth its reasons, howsoever brief, in its order ,., indicative of an
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