Supreme Court of India

State of Himachal Pradesh v. Dhanwant Singh

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Reported as [2004] 2 S.C.R. 297
Bench Doraiswamy Raju and Arijit Pasay At JJ.
Decided 12 February 2004

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we set aside the judgment of the High Court so far as it A relates to non-exercise of powers available under Article 227 of the Constitution.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973/Constitution of India, 1950-Sections 482 and 401/Article 227-Exercise of powers under Section .482 and Article 227-Scope of-Order of confiscation of vehicle-Appeal under Section 59(2)- Disposed of holding that Authorised Officer has no jurisdiction to pass order since it was not claimed that property belongs to State-Revision-High Court holding that as finality attached to the order passed in appeal, revision not maintainable and also as order of trial court not wrong there was no scope to exercise powers under Section 482 Cr.P. . and Article 227-0n appeal,

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