(Uday Umesh Lalit, S. Ravindra Bhat and Bela M. Trivedi, JJ.)
Review Petition (Criminal) No. of 2022 (Arising out of Diary No. 1930 of 2022) In Criminal Appeal No. 963 of 2021, decided on March 15, 2022
State of Madhya Pradesh _____________________________ Petitioner;
v.
Sadique and Others ______________________________ Respondent(s).
Review Petition (Criminal) No. of 2022 (Arising out of Diary No. 1930 of 2022) and Criminal Appeal No. 963 of 2021
The Order of the court was delivered by
Order
1. Delay in preferring Review Petition is condoned.
2. Application for listing Review Petition in open Court is rejected.
3. Relying upon the decision in Bikramjit Singh v. State of Punjab1, it was observed by this Court:—
“Consequently, insofar as “Extension of time to complete investigation” is concerned, the Magistrate would not be competent to consider the request and the only competent authority to consider such request would be “the Court” as specified in the proviso in Section 43-D(b) of the UAPA.
In view of the law laid down by this Court, we accept the plea raised by the appellants and hold them entitled to the relief of default bail as prayed for.”
4. The grounds taken in the Review Petition do not make out any error apparent on record to justify interference.
5. This Review Petition is, therefore, dismissed.
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1 (2020) 10 SCC 616
