THE CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (RAJASTHAN AMENDMENT) ACT, 1991
Published in Rajasthan Gazette, Extraordinary, Part 4(Ka), dated 3.2.1993.
(Received the assent of the President on the 22nd day of January, 1993.)
An Act further to amend the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 in its application to the State of Rajasthan.
Be it enacted by the Rajasthan State Legislature in the Fourty-Second Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
1. Short title, extent and commencement - (1) This Act may be called the Code of Criminal Procedure (Rajasthan Amendment) Act, 1991.
(2) It shall extend to the whole of the State of Rajasthan.
(3) It shall come into force on such date as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.
Object & Reasons6
2. Amendment of section 357, Central Act 2 of 1974 - In section 357 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (Central Act 2 of 1974),-
(i) in sub-section (1), between the expression "the court may", and the expression "when passing judgment", the expression "and where the person against whom an offence is committed belongs to a schedule caste or a scheduled tribe but the accused person does not so belong, the court shall", shall be inserted; and
(ii) in sub-section (3), between the expression "the court may," and the expression "when passing judgment", the expression "and where the person against whom an offence is committed belong to a scheduled caste or a scheduled tribe but the accused person does not so belong, the court shall," shall be inserted. |
