The Supreme Court today dismissed the Review Petitions filed for reviewing the judgment dated 05-05-2017 whereby the death penalty to Rapists in the Nirbaya case has been confirmed. The review jurisdiction of any court is very limited. The Supreme Court referred the the judgment in Sow Chandra Kante and another v. Sheikh Habib, (1975) 1 SCC 674 speaking through Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer on review has stated the following in para 10:
“10. A review of a judgment is a serious step and reluctant resort to it is proper only where a glaring omission or patent mistake or like grave error has crept in earlier by judicial fallibility. A mere repetition, through different counsel, of old and overruled arguments, a second trip over ineffectually covered ground or minor mistakes of inconsequential import are obviously insufficient”
Relying upon very many judgments, the Supreme Court has rightly dismissed the review petitions and dismissed the plea of Alibi raised by one of the accused Vinay Sharma and dismissed the plea of Juvenility.
Read the judgment hereNirbaya Review
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