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CHANDRA DHARI SINGH
Vinod Alias Ganja – Appellant
Versus
State Of NCT Of Delhi – Respondent
ORDER :
CHANDRA DHARI SINGH, J.
1. The instant writ petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India on behalf of the petitioner seeking the following reliefs:
b) Pass any other writ, order or direction that this Hon’ble Court may consider fit and proper in the interest and furtherance of justice.”
2. The brief facts of the case are that an FIR bearing no. 40/1992 was registered under Sections 302/307/34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (hereinafter as ‘IPC’) read with Section 27 of the Arms Act, 1959 against the petitioner at Police Station - Mukherjee Nagar, New Delhi.
3. In the year 2000, the petitioner was convicted under the said offences by the learned Additional Sessions
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