document.
I am sorry that I made these allegations and I repent having
made them. I do not wish to persist in them. Kindly treat
protracted litigation and
cumbersome recovery proceedings. This act of atonement by the
repentant assessee requires satisfaction of twin statutory requirements,
which are a check
accepted as
it is bereft of any self-reproach, remorse or repentance. Further, in view of the
fact that she has not allowed quietus
represented in the
trial, disagreement by a judge in the appeal
process, repentance, possibility of reformation, prior
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limitation prescribed
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Actually, locus poenitentia, which literally signifies a place of repentance. In law, however, it, inter alia, refers to the
opportunity of withdrawing
belief credit. One can of course visualise an accomplice who is genuinely repentant for the commission of his crime and truly desires to make
deal from the hands of an
ignorant wife and no amount of repentance can undo the wrong
that has been wrought. In this situation
which the officer was held till recently. The maxim "Nemo Fruit Repented Turpissimus" (no one becomes dishonest all on a sudden
continue with this matter and send him again to jail, though repentant he is a little late undoubtedly.
For the above reasons, we allow
that this was his first visit out of India, and that he repented the act, and would never repeat it in future. In face