Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 96 · Decided 4 February 2015
Vivek Rai & ANR. v. High Court of Jharkhand Through Registrar General & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 96 · [2015] 1 S.C.R. 1014
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 61/2012
- Decided
- 4 February 2015
- Bench
- T.S. THAKUR, ADARSH KUMAR GOEL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 397, 401; Constitution Article 14, 21, 32
Headnote
High Court of Jharkhand Rules, 2001 - r. 159 - r. 159 C requiring the accused to surrender to the custody of the court before filing revision petition - Constitutional validity of - Held: Rule does not suffer from any infirmity - The general practice is that a and sentence is filed after an appeal is dismissed and the convicted person is taken D into custody in Court itself - Object of the Rule is to ensure that a person who has been convicted by two courts obeys the law and does not abscond - Provision cannot thus, be held to be arbitrary in any
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