Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 294 · Decided 20 April 2004
State of Rajasthan v. Sohan Lal and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 294 · [2004] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 480
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 895/2002
- Decided
- 20 April 2004
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 378, 374; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: S.378-Appeal by State against acquittal-High Court refusing to C grant leave, without assigning reasons-Held, the giving of reasons for a decision is an essential attribute of judicial and judicious disposal of a matter before courts and which is the only court concerned had really applied its mind-Al/ the more so, when refusal of le'iive D to appeal has the effect of foreclosing once and for all /scope for scrutiny of the judgment of the trial court even at the instance and hands of the first appellate court-The need for recording reasons for
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