Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Evidentiary value - Inquest report does not find signature of appellant - Held, only on ground of absence of signature of appellant on inquest report, well founded evidence of recovery of dead body at instance of appellant cannot be discarded...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - FIR containing names of assailants filed before inquest report - Names of assailants not disclosed in the inquest - Held, it attaches taint to the prosecution case...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - Object - To investigate into and draw up a report of the apparent cause of death, describing such wounds as may be found on the body of the deceased and stating as in what manner, or by what weapon or instrument such wounds appear to have been inflicted - Neither necessary nor obligatory for I.O. to investigate..........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 174 -- Inquest report - It is not a statement of a person wherein all the names of accused must be mentioned - Omissions in the inquest report are not sufficient to put the prosecution out of court...........
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..........
