Supreme Court of India

The State of Kerala v. Narayani Amma Kamala Devi

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Reported as [1962] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 943
Bench J.L. Kapur J.
Decided 19 March 1962

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons discussed earlier, we have come to the conclusion that the High Court was right in holding that the application for revision could be entertained under s. 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Criminal Trial-Conviction-Death of ·accused-Revision ta High Court, after the death of the accused if maintainable­ Appellate and Revisianal jurisdiction-Distinction between­ Cade of Criminal Procedure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), ss. 481, 439. One N, a cashier of a bank, was convicted of an · offence under s. 381 of the Indian Penal Code on a charge of theft of a certain amount belonging to the Bank and was convicted to one year's rigorous imprisonment. His appeal to the Sessions Court was unsuccessful. On that very date within few hours after the pronouncement of the judgment by the Sessions

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