Criminal Manual 314 — Section

Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977

Statutory text

(1) When the record of a case, in appeal is called for from a Court of Session by the High Court the Sessions Judge shall if the papers are not asked for in original only, forward with it four typed and paged copies of the record and proceedings. The copies should be initialled as correct by the typist and the Clerk of the Court. The copies should contain first the diary of the proceedings, then the list of property and the charge and thereafter the depositions, the statement of the accused person, notes of arguments, the judgment and other exhibited documents typed copies of other exhibited documents, if any, arranged in serial order. With each copy should be supplied an index in the form No. 63. Exhibits in Gujarati language are not required to be translated into English. Typed copies of the Gujarati exhibits should be placed in thier proper position in the paper-book. The index should allow for (but not include in its paging) the memo of appeal which will be typed in the High Court and included in the paper-book immediately after the index.

(2) The copies should be accurately made and the record should not be unnecessarily increased by including pages which are practically blank or otherwise. All the copies taken out should be clearly legible and not faint or blurred. The Registrar or the Clerk of the Court of the Sessions Court, as the case may be, should verify before sending the paper-books to the High Court that all the paper-books are legible and neatly prepared as per direction in the Manual.

(3) The typed copies should be given independent paging and not the paging of the original record.

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