Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, 161 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Ss.482, 180), Evidence Act, 1872, S.30 - Anticipatory bail - Confession of co-accused - Statement recorded u/S.161 Cr.P.C (S.180 BNSS) - While it is permissible for Courts to examine statements recorded u/s 161 Cr.P.C. for the purpose of ascertaining whether a prima-facie case has..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, 161 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Ss.482, 180), Evidence Act, 1872, S.30 - Anticipatory bail - Confession of co-accused - Statement recorded u/S.161 Cr.P.C (S.180 BNSS) - Inculpatory statement - Statement of accused person u/s.161 Cr.P.C. by virtue of ordinarily being in the form of either an admission or a..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, 161 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Ss.482, 180), Evidence Act, 1872, S.30 - Anticipatory bail - Confession of co-accused - Statement recorded u/S.161 Cr.P.C (S.180 BNSS) - Exculpatory statement - Exculpatory police statement of an accused person u/S.161 Cr.P.C that implicates another co-accused, cannot be relied..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 438, 161 -- (Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, Ss.482, 180), Evidence Act, 1872, S.30 - Anticipatory bail - Confession of co-accused - Statement recorded u/S. 161 Cr.P.C (180 BNSS) - Exculpatory statement - Exculpatory statement of an accused person u/S.161 Cr.P.C can only be looked into for the limited purpose of either..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 161, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 27 -- Murder - Witness turned hostile - Neither the statement made to I.O. can be treated as gospel truth nor the voluntarily statement made by accused can be relied upon except to the extent of the discovery of fact, on information supplied, which would be a strong implicating circumstance if, and..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 302, 120B, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 161 -- Murder - Conviction - Witness turned hostile - Conviction on the basis of statement made u/S. 161 Cr.P.C - Merely because the story come out of the mouth of IO, it cannot be believed and a legal sanctity given to it, higher than that provided to S.161 statements u/s 162 Cr.P.C...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 161 -- Statement recorded u/s 161 Cr.P.C - Delay on the part of I.O. in recording statements of crucial witnesses casts a cloud on the very veracity of their testimonies - Further, discrepancies in timelines brought out by them demonstrates in no uncertain terms that narratives of these witnesses are not free from suspicion and doubt...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 138, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 161 -- Cross examination - Confronting witness with his statement recorded u/s 161 Cr.P.C. - Confronted portion reproduced in brackets - Such marked portion must be proved through I.O. - Unless such marked portion is duly proved, it cannot be reproduced in the deposition of witnesses...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 161 -- Statement of eye witnesses recorded u/s 161 Cr.P.C. one month after date of incident - Delay weighed heavily against prosecution to infer the possibility of these witnesses being planted witnesses...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 161 -- Statement of witnesses recorded u/s 161 Cr.P.C. - Cannot be the basis to convict accused and that too for a serious offence of murder - Such statement is used merely to contradict a witness with his previous statement...........
