Supreme Court of India

Vivek Rai & Anr. v. High Court of Jharkhand through Registrar General & Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 1 S.C.R. 1014
Bench T.S. Thakur and Adarsh Kumar Goel JJ.
Decided 4 February 2015

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High Court of Jharkhand Rules, 2001 - r. 159 - r. 159 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 revision against conviction and sentence is filed after an appeal is dismissed and the convicted person is taken 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 manner - Provision is

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