Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Object - Held, object of inquest proceeding is merely to ascertain whether a person has died under unnatural circumstances or an unnatural death and if so, what is cause of death - Inquest report is not a piece of substantive evidence and can be utilized only for contradicting witnesses to inquest examined..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Writ for direction to CBI to investigate - Case u/s 174 Cr.P.C. had already been registered by police and police conducted inquest in presence of relatives of deceased and recorded statement of several persons - Post mortem report that death was due to suicidal hanging - Death when does not come within purview of S.174(3)(i) or..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Normally does not contain the manner in which the incident took place or the names of eye witnesses as well as names of accused persons - The basic purpose of holding an inquest is to report regarding the cause of death, namely whether it is suicidal, homicidal, accidental etc...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 482, Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 174, 175, Constitution of India, 1950, Article 20, Finance Act, 2008, Section 69 - - Retrospective amendment - Creation of offence - Effect of - Held, retrospective amendment by S.69 of the Finance Act, 2008 can ex-post facto ratify the acts of officers in issuing summons u/s 108 of the Customs..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 154, 174 -- FIR, Inquest report and Postmortem report - Variance therein - Effect of - Held, FIR, inquest report and postmortem report are not the substantive pieces of evidence and variance in those documents without causing prejudice to accused is always not fatal to prosecution...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Preparation of - Object - Held, the very purpose of preparing inquest report is to record apparent cause of death of deceased, visible injuries, place and circumstances in which dead body is noticed by a police officer, wearing apparel of deceased and other formal information disclosing cause of death of..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Dowry death - Inquest report conducted by Tahsildar - Validity of - Contention that conducting of inquest by an Executive Magistrate is for ascertaining the truth in case of death and even if a Tahsildar has taken up the job, it would not be fatal to prosecution and that his report may not have any evidentiary value - Held,..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 188, Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 195(1) -- Offence if covered u/ss 172 to 188 IPC then police has no power to register and investigate the case without prior permission of concerned Magistrate...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Non recording of minute details in inquest report is not fatal...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Panchnama - Evidentiary value - Panchnama recorded at the time of recovery of dead body and appellant has made discloser statement before such preparation of panchnama - Held, panchnama doesn't have any evidentiary value...........
