Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 179 · Decided 1 April 2005
State of Nagaland v. Lipok Ao and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 179 · [2005] 3 S.C.R. 108
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 484/2005
- Decided
- 1 April 2005
- Bench
- ARIJIT PASAYAT, S.H. KAPADIA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 378, 378(3); Limitation Act Section 5
Headnote
~ Limitation Act, 1963-Section 5-Application filed by Appellant-State in terms of S.378, CrPC seeking leave to appeal before High Court against c acquittal of accused-respondents by Trial Court-Delay of 57 days in filing the app/ication-Condonation of-Held: High Court erred in rejecting the with pragmatism-Factors peculiar to functioning of the State such as procedural red-tape cannot be excluded from consideration-8tate being an impersonal machinery cannot be put on the c same footing as an individual who would alw<rys be quick in taking decision- Code of Criminal Procedure,
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