2012 (4) TMI 794

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..... ve wrongly been registered as criminal misc. petitions, which are generally filed under Section 482 Code of Criminal Procedure. Petitioner has relied on Rule 315 (h) of the Rajasthan High Court Rules, 1952 and argued that application for issue of a writ under Article 226 of the Constitution in a criminal matter has to be separately numbered and registered after presentation. It is contended tha .....

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..... f jurisdiction of the High Court is restricted to only courts subordinate to it and the matters ancillary thereto, which is the ambit of that provision, whereas in the matters registered as criminal writ petitions under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India, the High Court would have a wider jurisdiction. Shri S.K. Mehla, learned Public Prosecutor submitted that if Rule 315 (h) of the Ra .....

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..... st be confined to territory of the State. When Rule 315(h) of the Rajasthan High Court Rules has required the criminal writ petitions to be registered separately, there is no reason that the writ petitions filed by the petitioner should not be registered as criminal writ petitions, particularly when Rule 375 refers to the civil writ petitions of the other kind presented before this Court. The Regi .....

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