Supreme Court Quashes High Court's Correction Application Order in Criminal Appeals - High Court's Modification of Conviction Under Section 362 CrPC Held Impermissible. The High Court's impugned judgment, which converted convictions from Section 302 to Section 304 Part II IPC and reduced sentences via a Correction Application, was found to be a substantive alteration not allowed under Section 362 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, as it exceeded the scope of correcting clerical or arithmetical errors....
The dispute arose from criminal appeals challenging the Allahabad High Court's judgment dated 8 February 2019, which allowed a Correction Application under Section 362 of the Code of Criminal Procedur...
