Supreme Court of India

Union of India & Anr. v. Dinesh Kumar

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Reported as [2010] 2 S.C.R. 830
Bench V.S. Sirpurkar and Surinder Singh Nijjar JJ.
Decided 16 February 2010

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons aforesaid, it must be held that 8 reasons are not required to be recorded for an order passed by the confirming authority confirming the findings and sentence recorded by the court martial as well as for the order passed by the Central Government dismissing the post-confirmation petition.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Border Security Force Act, 1968 - s. 117(2) - Border Security Force Rules, 1969 - rr. 99 and 149(1) - Recording of reasons in support of order passed by Summary Security Force Court and appellate authority - Requirement of - Held: SSFC ulr. 149 or appellate authority u/s. 117(2) are not required to give reasons.Jn support of its decision - r. 99 was amended requiring the authority of General Security Force Court or Petty Security Force Court to give reasons in support of their findings. - No such amendment was made to r. 149 which is appli9able in case of Summary Security Force Court -

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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