Supreme Court of India
Sheetala Prasad and Ors. v. Sri Kant and Anr.
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What the Court ordered
For the reasons stated in the judgment, the appeal succeeds.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 - s.401 - Revisional ... jurisdiction - Exercise of, by High Court at the instance of c private complainant - Scope - Held: Revisional jurisdiction, when invoked by a private complainant against an order of acquittal, cannot be exercised lightly and can be exercised only in exceptional cases where interest of public justice require interference for correction of manifest illegality or prevention of gross miscarriage of justice - In such cases, or cases of similar nature, retrial or rehearing of the appeal may be ordered - On facts, High Court exercised
Where later benches applied it
- 2022 Honnaiah T.H. v. State of Karnataka and Others
- 2022 Joseph Stephen and Others v. Santhanasamy and Others
- 2018 Menoka Malik and Others v. The State of West Bengal and Others
Of those, 3 relied on
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