Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 (II of 1974) Section 401, 482 – revision – maintainability – Petition is maintainable whether titled as one under Section 482 Cr.P.C. or whether treated to be one under Section 401 Cr.P.C. – Availability of an alternate remedy in the form of a revision would not limit or effect the inherent powers of the High Court under Section 482 Cr.P.C. – Even if a second revision before the High Court was barred under Section 397(3) Cr.P.C. after the dismissal of the first one by the Court of Sessions, the inherent powers of the High Court would still be available under Section 482 Cr.P.C. – The reason being that under Section 401 Cr.P.C., every High Court has suo moto powers of revision which was in addition and apart from the express power under Section 397(1) Cr.P.C. – High Court was invested with continuous supervisory jurisdiction to prevent miscarriage of justice or to correct irregularities of procedure or to meet out the justice or to prevent abuse of process, to be exercised either under Section 401 read with Section 397 Cr.P.C. or under Section 482 Cr.P.C. Prabhu Chawla, Krishnan v. Krishnaveni, (1997) 4 SCC 241, relied.
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