Author: Dinesh Singh Chauhan

Criminal Justice Delivery System does not cloth Criminal Court with power to alter or review the Judgment or final Order disposing the case except to correct the clerical or arithmetical error. After the Judgment delivered by a Criminal Court or passing final Order disposing the case the Court becomes functus officio and any mistake or glaring omission is left to be corrected only by appropriate forum in accordance with law.

Bench proceedings and orders — Stray dogs in Delhi-NCR A Bench of Two Hon’ble Judges of the Supreme Court comprising Hon’ble Justice J. B. Pardiwala & Mr Justice R Mahadevan, took Suo Moto cognizance on 28th July, 2025, of a news report published in The Times of India, Delhi Edition, titled “City Hounded by Strays, Kids Pay.” Pursuant to the taking of suo moto cognizance, the matter came to be listed before the Bench on 11th August 2025, on which the following directions were issued: “12. For the present, the aforesaid directions shall be complied with and implemented scrupulously. We,…