2012 (4) TMI 794

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....hri Mahendra Gaur-petitioner present in person has submitted that these matters have wrongly been registered as criminal misc. petitions, which are generally filed under Section 482 Code of Criminal Procedure. Petitioner has relied on Rule 315 (h) of the Rajasthan High Court Rules, 1952 and argued that application for issue of a writ under Article 226 of the Constitution in a c....

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....d there. It is contended that by confining this kind of petition to the scope of Section 482 Cr.P.C., scope of jurisdiction of the High Court is restricted to only courts subordinate to it and the matters ancillary thereto, which is the ambit of that provision, whereas in the matters registered as criminal writ petitions under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India, th....

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....nder Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India, orders that may be passed therein may have much wider ramifications and reach whereof may not just be confined to territory of the State. When Rule 315(h) of the Rajasthan High Court Rules has required the criminal writ petitions to be registered separately, there is no reason that the writ petitions filed by the petitioner should not be....