Rajinder Kumar v. State Of Haryana And ANR


   


 



  
 



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(3) A victim or his dependent shall have the right to reasonable, accurate, and timely notice of any Court proceeding including any bail proceeding and the Special Public Prosecutor or the State Government shall inform the victim about any proceedings under this Act.

(5) A victim or his dependent shall be entitled to be heard at any proceeding under this Act in respect of bail, discharge, release, parole, conviction or sentence of an accused or any connected proceedings or arguments and file written submission on conviction, acquittal or sentencing.

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17. The nding of the Gujarat High Court that the requirement of issuing notice of a court proceeding to a victim or a dependent under Section 15A (3), in order to provide them an opportunity of being heard, is mandatory, nds echo in multiple High Court decisions[13*] including a decision of the Rajasthan High Court[14*]. We nd ourselves in agreement with the proposition and hold that sub/sections (3) and (5) of Section 15A are mandatory in nature.

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21. We also emphasize that sub/section (3) of Section 15A provides that a reasonable and timely notice must be issued to the victim or their dependent. This would entail that the notice is served upon victims or their dependents at the rst or earliest possible instance. If undue delay is caused in the issuance of notice, the victim, or as the case may be, their dependents, would remain uninformed of the progress made in the case and it would prejudice their rights to e3ectively oppose the defense of the accused. It would also ultimately delay the bail proceedings or the trial, a3ecting the rights of the accused as well.

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