https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=44463 An appeal against inadequacy of sentence under the Code of Criminal Procedure could be maintained only by the Central Government through the Public Prosecutor acting under its direction; the complainant had no independent locus standi to institute such an appeal. The complainant's right to appeal was confined to the statutory scheme governing appeals against acquittal, not to an appeal for sentence inadequacy. The objection to competency was therefore upheld, and the appeals failed for want of maintainability, without deciding the broader question whether the Customs Department was an agency empowered to investigate for that purpose. en-us Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 26 Oct 2016 13:22:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=44463 An appeal against inadequacy of sentence under the Code of Criminal Procedure could be maintained only by the Central Government through the Public Prosecutor acting under its direction; the complainant had no independent locus standi to institute such an appeal. The complainant's right to appeal was confined to the statutory scheme governing appeals against acquittal, not to an appeal for sentence inadequacy. The objection to competency was therefore upheld, and the appeals failed for want of maintainability, without deciding the broader question whether the Customs Department was an agency empowered to investigate for that purpose. Case-Laws Central Excise Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=44463