https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296817 A convening authority must independently and meaningfully apply its mind to the charges and supporting material before ordering a court martial; where voluminous records are processed in an unrealistically short time, and the summary of evidence is incomplete, the proceedings are vitiated for non-application of mind. A subsequent review is also invalid where the same authority earlier initiated the inquiry, ordered trial, and then handled the review, creating a reasonable apprehension of bias and denying a fair, impartial process. A conviction cannot stand where charge No. 7 is unsupported by legally reliable evidence and the record instead contradicts the alleged misappropriation; the finding was set aside. en-us Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 07 Aug 2021 17:45:52 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296817 A convening authority must independently and meaningfully apply its mind to the charges and supporting material before ordering a court martial; where voluminous records are processed in an unrealistically short time, and the summary of evidence is incomplete, the proceedings are vitiated for non-application of mind. A subsequent review is also invalid where the same authority earlier initiated the inquiry, ordered trial, and then handled the review, creating a reasonable apprehension of bias and denying a fair, impartial process. A conviction cannot stand where charge No. 7 is unsupported by legally reliable evidence and the record instead contradicts the alleged misappropriation; the finding was set aside. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 23 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=296817