2024 INSC 125: Signature Not Verified
2024 INSC 125: Signature Not Verified
REPORTABLE
2024 INSC 125
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2024
(ARISING OUT OF SLP (CRL.) NO. 2052 OF 2017)
VERSUS
DIRECTORATE OF REVENUE
PROSECUTION INTELLIGENCE …RESPONDENT
JUDGMENT
SUDHANSHU DHULIA, J.
Leave granted.
06.10.2012.
482.
(i.e. Act 9 of 1908 i.e. the old Limitation Act) would apply
CrPC.
(2) If such an order of acquittal is passed in any case in which the offence has been investigated by the Delhi
Special Police Establishment constituted under the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act, 1946 (XXXV of
1946), the Central Government may also direct the Public Prosecutor to present an appeal to the High Court
from the order of acquittal.
(3) If such an order of acquittal is passed in any case instituted upon the complaint and the High Court, on an
application made to it by the complainant in this behalf, grants special leave to appeal from the order of
acquittal, the complainant may present such an appeal to the High Court.
(4) No application under sub-section (3) for the grant of special leave to appeal from the order of acquittal shall
be entertained by the High Court after the expiry of sixty days from the date of that order of acquittal.
(5) If, in any case, the application under sub-section (3) for the grant of special leave to appeal from an order of
acquittal is refused, no appeal from that order of acquittal shall lie under sub-section (1).
5
ILR (1961) Bom 135] which held that Section 417(4) was
under:-
held as under:
concerned authorities.
of 4 months.
reads as under:
dismissed.
...………………………….J.
[SUDHANSHU DHULIA]
..……….………………….J.
[PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE]
New Delhi.
February 20, 2024.