Articles

• Can the contractor argue that the Special Tribunal lacked jurisdiction and that the trial without a sanction for the senior procurement officer should be set aside?
• Can the contractor obtain a criminal revision in the Punjab and Haryana High Court to quash convictions from a Special Court that lacked statutory authority and failed to secure a sanction for the senior disaster officer?
• Can the contractor’s appeal to the Punjab and Haryana High Court succeed when the trial court treated his explanatory statement as a confession and relied on a dying declaration made after consulting witnesses?
• Can the conviction and death sentence be overturned by a revision petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court when the trial court admitted a ballistic expert’s opinion without allowing an independent expert?
• Can the conviction be challenged through a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court on the grounds that the assessing officer was not a court and the tax amendment was applied retroactively?
• Can the conviction be challenged through a revision petition when the sole eyewitness is the victim’s spouse and the FIR contains a clerical mistake?
• Can the conviction be set aside by a revision petition before the Punjab and Haryana High Court because the trial was conducted by a first class magistrate despite the special forest law restricting jurisdiction to second or third class magistrates?
• Can the conviction be set aside in Punjab and Haryana High Court because jurors lacked the ability to read English documents and the appeal memorandum did not specify a question of law?
• Can the conviction be set aside in Punjab and Haryana High Court because the trial magistrate issued commissions without District Magistrate approval?
• Can the conviction be set aside on a revision petition when the guard who witnessed the murder is considered an accomplice and his testimony lacks independent corroboration?