CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023
402. Power of High Court to withdraw or transfer revision cases
443. Power of High Court to withdraw or transfer revision cases
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CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 1973
402. Power of 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 questions involved, which of the two Courts should
finally dispose of the applications for revision and when the High Court decides that all the applications 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.
(2) Whenever any application for revision is transferred to the High Court, that Court shall deal with the same
as if it were an application duly made before itself.
(3) Whenever any application for revision is transferred to the Sessions Judge, that Judge shall deal with the
same as if it were an application duly made before himself.
(4) Where an application for revision is transferred by the High Court to the Sessions Judge, no further
application for revision shall lie to the High Court or to any other Court at the instance of the person or persons
whose applications for revision have been disposed of by the Sessions Judge.
Legacy / repealed by BNSS India Code — CrPC 1973
BHARATIYA NAGARIK SURAKSHA SANHITA, 2023
443. Power of 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 questions
involved, which of the two Courts should finally dispose of the applications for revision and when the High
Court decides that all the applications 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.
(2) Whenever any application for revision is transferred to the High Court, that Court shall deal with
the same as if it were an application duly made before itself.
(3) Whenever any application for revision is transferred to the Sessions Judge, that Judge shall deal
with the same as if it were an application duly made before himself.
(4) Where an application for revision is transferred by the High Court to the Sessions Judge, no further
application for revision shall lie to the High Court or to any other Court at the instance of the person or
persons whose applications for revision have been disposed of by the Sessions Judge.
Current law India Code — BNSS 2023