Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Evidence of eyewitnesses can not be discarded if their names do not figure in the inquest report prepared at the earliest point of time...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Inquest report cannot be treated as substantive evidence but may be utilised for contradicting the witnesses of inquest...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Five blanks in the inquest report such as (1) Crime number; (2) Names of accused persons; (3) Penal provisions; (4) Time of incident and (5) Time of despatch of the special report - It cannot be held that any omission or discrepancy in the inquest is fatal to the prosecution case and such omissions would..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Names of accused and details of weapons possessed by each one of the accused who participated in the assault not required to be mentioned in the inquest report - Merely because the witnesses on the inquest report who are also eye witnesses did not give out the names of the accused persons while describing the..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Scope - Inquest report - Purpose of preparation of inquest report is to ascertain whether a person has died in some suspicious circumstances or an unnatural death and as to the apparent cause of death - Inquest repot need not contain the details as to how the deceased were assaulted or who assaulted them - Omission of names of..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Object of inquest proceedings is to ascertain whether a person has died under unnatural circumstances or an unnatural death and if so, what is the cause of death - Question regrading the details as to how the deceased was assaulted or who assaulted him or under what circumstance he was assaulted, is foreign to..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154, 174 -- FIR - Non mention of name of accused in the inquest report - Cannot be inferred that FIR was not in existence at the time of inquest proceedings...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report and post mortem report - Not substantive evidence - Any discrepancy occurring therein can neither be termed to be fatal nor even a suspicious circumstance which would warrant a benefit to the accused and the resultant dismissal of the prosecution case...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Not substantive evidence - May be utilized for contradicting the witnesses of the inquest...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Name of accused not in inquest report - Held that object of proceedings u/s 174 Cr.P.C. is merely to ascertain whether a person has died under suspicious circumstances or an unnatural death and if so what is the apparent cause of death - Held, that the details as to how the deceased was assaulted or who..........
