Section 137
Transmission of proceedings of Summary Assam Rifles Court.
About this Act
An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to the governance of the Assam Rifles, an Armed Force of the Union for ensuring the security of the borders of India, to carry out Counter Insurgency Operations in the specified areas and to act in aid of civil authorities for the maintenance of the law and order and for matters connected therewith.
The proceedings of every
Summary Assam Rifles Court shall, without delay, be forwarded to the officer not below the rank of
Deputy Inspector-General within whose command the trial was held, or to the prescribed officer, and such
officer or the Director General or any officer empowered by him in this behalf may, for reasons based on
the merits of the case, but not on merely technical grounds, set aside the proceedings, or reduce the
sentence to any other sentence which the court might have passed.