CrPC Section 465: Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 · Chapter 35: Irregular Proceedings
Repealed on 1 July 2024 and replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (BNSS).
465. Finding or sentence when reversible by reason of error, omission or irregularity.- (1) Subject to the provisions hereinbefore contained, on finding sentence or order passed by a Court of competent jurisdiction shall be reversed or altered by a Court of appeal, confirmation or revision on account of any error, omission or irregularity in the complaint, summons, warrant, proclamation, order, judgment or other proceedings before or during trial or in any inquiry or other proceedings under this Code, or any error, or irregularity in any sanction for the prosecution unless in the opinion of that Court, a failure of justice has in fact been occasioned thereby.
(2) In determining whether any error, omission or irregularity in any proceeding under this Code, or any error, or irregularity in any sanction for the prosecution has occasioned a failure of justice, the Court shall have regard to the fact whether the objection could and should have been raised at an earlier stage in the proceedings.
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Other sections in this chapter
- 460. Irregularities which do not vitiate proceedings
- 461. Irregularities which vitiate proceedings
- 462. Proceedings in wrong place
- 463. Non-compliance with provisions of section 164 or section 281
- 464. Effect of omission to frame, or absence of, or error in, charge
- 466. Defect or error not to make attachment unlawful