Supreme Court of India

Jitender @ Kalla v. State (govt of Nct of Delhi) & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 2 S.C.R. 1969
Bench Abhay S. Oka J.
Decided 20 February 2025

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that designation under sub-section (2) of Section 16 cannot be the monopoly of the advocates practising in higher Constitutional Courts like this Court and the High Courts.

Judgment, page 34

From the headnote

The appellant was convicted and sentenced to thirty years of rigorous imprisonment without the right to seek remission until the sentence was complete, a punishment restored by the Supreme Court in an earlier judgment – The present Special Leave Petition (SLP) was filed by the appellant challenging a High Court order passed in a separate and unconnected case concerning another convict – While filing the SLP, the appellant suppressed the material fact that his sentence was for a fixed term of thirty years without remission, leading the Court to initially proceed on the footing of a simple life

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 mentioned

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