Assertion (A): The provisions for reviewing decision of a criminal court are for the due protection of…

Read reviewing in its general sense of appellate or revisional scrutiny by a competent superior court. Those safeguards protect life and liberty because judicial decisions can contain errors. The reason therefore explains the assertion. This does not create a power in the same criminal court to reconsider its signed merits judgment: section 362 generally prohibits alteration or review except correction of a clerical or arithmetical error or an express legal exception.

Current law: BNSS preserves appellate and revisional remedies; section 403 corresponds to the signed-judgment review restriction, subject to section 531 savings.