Registration Act, 1908, Section 17 -- Deed of relinquishment of right in immovable property - Requires compulsory registration - Unregistered deed of relinquishment of right in immovable property is not admissible in evidence...........
Registration Act, 1908, Section 9 -- Partnership deed - Unstamped - Deed is admissible for collateral purposes...........
Agreement to sell -- Suit for specific performance - Agreement executed in the year 1980 on two stamp papers purchased on two different dates i.e. in the year 1973 and 1978 - Held, in the absence of any Rule requiring consecutively numbered stamp papers purchased on the same day, being used for an instrument, which is not intended to be registered, a document cannot be..........
Stamp Act, 1899, Section 37, 37 -- Agreement to sell - Not executed on requisite stamp paper - It is admissible in evidence on payment of duty and penalty u/s 35 or 37 of the Act...........
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, Section 161, 162 -- Contents of spot map - Proof of - Held, contents of spot map prepared by police at the instance of a witness would be considered as statement of witness recorded u/s 161 of the Code and merely by exhibiting the map by Investigating Officer, its contents would not become admissible in evidence - The use of contents of map..........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 67, Evidence Act, 1872, Section 25 -- Contraband - Confessional statement made before Inspector of Narcotics Bureau - Confession is admissible as Inspector of Narcotics Bureau is not a Police Officer within meaning of S.25 of Evidence Act though he is vested with powers of Police Officer u/s 53 of NDPS Act -..........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 32 -- FIR as dying declaration - Deceased dictated the FIR to the police which was read over to him after which he put his thumb impression on the same - Held, this report is admissible u/s 32 of the Evidence Act as a dying declaration...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 27 -- Discovery - Admissible in evidence, if it is of a fact which is relevant to connect the same with the commission of crime - Recovery of a weapon at the instance of the accused which has no nexus with the cause of death of the deceased is inadmissible in evidence...........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 8(c), 21 -- Recovery memo prepared at office of DRI - Part of recovery memo prepared at spot and remaining at office of DRI - Only a procedural irregularity - Evidence collected thereby is admissible - No prejudice caused to accused - Accused convicted u/s 8(c) read with S.21 of NDPS Act...........
Evidence Act, 1872, Section 67 -- Fax message received in PCO - Illegible copy - Contents not proved - Fax when received and from whom received not proved - Not shown that it was obtained by the person for whom it was meant - Held, fax message not admissible in evidence in terms of S.67 of the Act...........
