New Delhi: A high court has no power to review or recall its final judgement in a criminal case, the Supreme Court has held, setting aside a Rajasthan High Court order that had transferred to the CBI two illegal mining and intimidation cases in Bhilwara against Congress leader and former minister Ramlal Jat, after initially declining to do so.

A bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta allowed an appeal filed by the Rajasthan government against transferring the case to the CBI , holding that the high court’s recall of its earlier order amounted to an impermissible review of a final judgment.

The ruling effectively restores the probe to Rajasthan Police from the CBI. The state police will now continue to investigate the cases against former minister Ramlal Jat and other

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