Case Details

Citation(s)
1963 SLG 535 1963 SLD 535 = 1963 PLD 422
Dacca High Court
Criminal Miscellaneous Case No. 76 of 1962, decided on 1st February 1963.
Before Murshed, Sattar and A. M. Sayem, JJ
Hamidul lluq Choudhury, B. H. Chowdhury, A. H. Mirza and H. K. Chowdhury for Petitioner. Md. N. Huda, Dy. Attorney‑General and A. W. Malik for the State. Maksum‑ul‑Hakim, Advocate‑General, Mahbubur Rahman S. M. Abbas, Sultan Ahmad and Akram Hossain Amin for
Respondents.

LT.‑COL. G. L. BHATTACHARYA‑‑--Petitioner

VERSUS

THE STATE‑---Respondent

Law: Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1898

Section: 401

 

 (a) Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 401‑Provincial Government's power to remit sentences‑May be exercised in respect of sentences passed by Special Military Court‑Such power not rendered inoperative by Martial Law Regulation (C. M. L. A's. No. 1‑A), cl. (b) or by Martial Low (Pending Proceedings and Protection) Order (26 of 1962), Ss. 5 & 6 or by Army Act (XXXIX of 1952), S. 143, or by S. 2 read with S. I (2), Military Court Sentences (Supplementary Provisions) Ordinance (LXXVIII of 1962)‑Maxim; Expressio unius est exclusio alterius.

 

The Martial Law Regulation (C. M. L. A's. No. 1‑A) read along with Martial Law (Pending Proceedings and Protection) Order, 1962 does not render the provision of section 401 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898 inoperative with regard to sentences pronounced by a Special Military Court.

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