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What are the Power of High Court to withdraw or transfer revision cases?

whatsQ.comSECTION 402 of Code of Criminal Procedure,1973 gives following Power to High Court to withdraw or transfer revision cases. (1) Whenever one or more persons convicted at the same trial makes or make application to a High Court for revision and any other person convicted at the same trial makes an application to the Sessions Judge for revision, the High Court shall decide, having regard to the general convenience of the parties and the importance of the question involved, which of the two Courts should finally dispose of the applications for revision and when the High Court decides that all the application for revision should be disposed of by itself, the High Court shall direct that the applications for revision pending before the Sessions Judge be transferred to itself and where the High Court decides that it is not necessary for it to dispose of the applications for revision, it shall direct that the applications for revision made to it be transferred to the Sessions Judge.

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How Summon is served?

Under section 62 of  Crminal procedure code,1973

(1) Every summons shall be served by a police officer, or subject to such rules as the State Government may make in this behalf, by an officer of the court issuing it or other public servant.

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Whats are the Contents of charge?

Following are the content of charge under section 211 of Code of criminal procedure,1973(1) Every charge under this Code shall state the offence with which the accused is charged.(2) If the law that creates the offence gives it any specific name, the offence may be described in the charge by Read more…

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what is Cognizable offence ?

Cognizable offence as defined by Criminal procedure code ,1973As per Indian code of criminal procedure, 1973 “cognizable offence”  means a offence for which, and “cognizable case” means a case in which, a police officer may arrest the person without warrant.  {loadposition wtext}

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