Practice and Procedure – Pronouncement of final orders without a reasoned judgment, deprecated – High Court while allowing appeals of the accused pronounced the operative portion of the order and set aside the judgment and order of conviction passed by the trial court and directed the accused who was in jail to be released, but a reasoned judgment and order was pronounced after approximately five months – On appeal, held: Despite strong observations made by Supreme Court as far as back in the year 1984 and thereafter repeatedly reiterated, still the practice of pronouncing only the operative portion of the judgment without a reasoned judgment and to pass a reasoned judgment subsequently has been continued – Such a practice of pronouncing the final orders without a reasoned judgment has to be stopped and discouraged – On facts, a reasoned judgment was pronounced and uploaded by the High Court after a period of almost five months – Impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court accordingly set aside – Appeals remanded to High Court for decision afresh in accordance with law and on merits – IPC – s.302 r/w s.34. Balaji Baliram Mupade & Anr. v. The State of
Maharashtra [Decision of Supreme Court dated 29-102020 in Civil Appeal No. 3564 of 2020]; State of Punjab & Ors. v. Jagdev Singh Talwandi, (1984) 1 SCC 596: [1984] 2 SCR 50 and Anil Rai v. State of Bihar, (2001) 7 SCC 318: [2001] 1 Suppl. SCR 298 – referred to.
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