BJS Preparation Series: Special Note on Similar Sections of Laws

      BJS Preparation Series: 
Special Note on Similar Sections of Laws

Question: Whether a criminal court can alter or review its judgment after it has signed the same?

Answer: No, in a criminal case, the court cannot alter or review its judgment once it has been signed, except to correct a clerical error. (Section 369 of CrPC, 1898)

Question: Whether a court in a civil suit can correct clerical or arithmetical mistakes in its judgments, decrees, or orders?

Answer: Yes, under Section 152 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 a court in a civil suit can correct clerical or arithmetical mistakes, or errors arising from accidental slip or omission in its judgments, decrees, or orders at any time, either on its own motion or on the application of any party.

 The Evidence Act, 1872.

Indecent and scandalous questions

151. The Court may forbid any questions or inquiries which it regards as indecent or scandalous, although such questions or inquiries may have some bearing on the questions before the Court, unless they relate to facts in issue, or to matters necessary to be known in order to determine whether or not the facts in issue existed.

Questions intended to insult or annoy

152. The Court shall forbid any question which appears to it to be intended to insult or annoy, or which, though proper in itself, appears to the Court needlessly offensive in form.    

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👤 Nazmul Hasan
Senior Judicial Magistrate

🏅 11th BJS (Merit Rank: 7th)

🎓 Academic Credentials:

·       LL.B. (Hons.), First Class First | University of Rajshahi

·       LL.M., First Class | University of Rajshahi

🏆 Awards & Honors:

·       Prime Minister Gold Medalist (2017)

·       Agrani Bank Gold Medal for Academic Excellence (2023)

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