The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday set aside orders of the Rajasthan High Court that had transferred a criminal investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), ruling that a High Court has no power to recall or review its own judgment in criminal matters under the guise of correcting an inadvertent error.

A bench comprising Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta , allowing an appeal filed by the State of Rajasthan, held that once a petition seeking transfer of investigation had been disposed of, the High Court could not entertain a subsequent application to modify that order and grant the relief originally sought. The Court emphasized that the only permissible correction is for clerical errors under Section 403 of the Bharatiya Nagarika Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (Se

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