Sashastra Seema Bal Act, 2007
130. Alteration of finding or sentence in
certain cases.
1. Where a
finding of guilty by a Force Court, which has been confirmed or which does not
require confirmation, is found for any reason to be invalid or cannot be
supported by the evidence, the authority which would have had power under
section 142 to commute the punishment awarded by the sentence, if the finding
had been valid may substitute a new finding and pass a sentence for the offence
specified or involved in such finding:
Provided that no such substitution shall be made unless such
finding could have been validly made by the Force Court on the charge and
unless it appears that the Force Court must have been satisfied of the facts
establishing the said offence.
1.
2. Where a
sentence passed by a Force Court which has been confirmed, or which does not
require confirmation, not being a sentence passed in pursuance of a new finding
substituted under sub-section (1) , is found for any reason to be
invalid, the authority referred to in sub-section (1) may pass a valid
sentence.
3. The
punishment awarded by a sentence passed under sub-section (1) or
subsection (2) shall not be higher in the scale of punishments than, or
in excess of, the punishment awarded by, the sentence for which a new sentence
is substituted under this section.
4. Any
finding substituted, or any sentence passed, under this section shall, for the
purposes of this Act and the rules, have effect as if it were a finding or
sentence, as the case may be, of a Force Court.