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Showing posts with label police statement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police statement. Show all posts
Friday, 22 August 2025

Supreme Court: Revisional court can not set aside acquittal of accused relying on police or S 164 CRPC statement of witness if that witness has turned hostile to prosecution case

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 It appears that the High Court relied upon the police statement of PW-7 recorded Under Section 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure instea...
Monday, 26 May 2025

Supreme court: Key Distinction: Accused vs. Witness Statements Under Section 161 CrPC in Bail Decisions

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(ix)   Although a handful of decisions of this Court such as  Indresh Kumar  (supra) and  Salim Khan  (supra) have held that statements unde...
Sunday, 27 October 2024

Evidentiary Value of statements obtained by Police under the Indian Evidence Act

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  The evidentiary value of statements made to police officers in India is primarily governed by the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, particularly ...
Tuesday, 9 August 2022

Whether court witnesses or defence witnesses can be contradicted by reference to their police statement recorded U/S s 161 of CRPC?

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   As regards the evidence of DW 1 it was wrong to have allowed him to be cross-examined by the prosecution with reference to the statement ...
Sunday, 24 November 2019

Whether evidence given by witness becomes inadmissible if police has read over his statement recorded U/S 161 of CRPC before he enters witness box?

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he Full Bench answered the questions in paragraph 27 of the judgment at p. 60 thus (at p. 45) of Cri LJ): "(1) The evidence of su...
Sunday, 25 November 2018

When statement of victim recorded by police can be treated as her dying declaration?

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 It is relevant to refer to judgment of this Court in Najjam Faraghi @ Nijjam Faruqui v. State of West Bengal MANU/SC/0949/1998 : (1998) 2...
Thursday, 11 May 2017

Whether police statement of witness recorded in one case can be used in other case?

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Further, in State of Kerala V Babu (1999 (4) SCC 621),    the Apex Court was confronted with the question as to   whether the statement...
Friday, 21 April 2017

Whether evidence of a witness can be looked with suspicion on ground his police statement is larger than his evidence?

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Mr. Huzefa Ahmadi, learned senior counsel for appellants contented that both the Courts below have committed an error in convicting the a...