Section 27 of the Evidence Act clearly speaks of information received from a person Accused of any offence while in the custody of the police leading to a discovery of a fact being enabled of proof in ...

Ordinarily no routine direction for second statement under Section 183 B.N.S.S. can be given but under exceptional circumstances. High Court in exercise of it’s extraordinary ju ...

SURVIVING PARTNER IN A MUTUAL SUICIDE PACT IS LEGALLY CULPABLE. 117. Notwithstanding the culpability of the act of purchasing pesticide, the Accused’s participation in a suicide ...

This note sets out: (i) the BNSS statutory authority to collect biological samples, (ii) the Supreme Court’s uniform ...

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(a) It is declared that the Petitioner was not produced before the nearest Magistrate within 24 hours, thereby making his arrest illegal. (b) Consequently, the Petitioner shall be released on bail on ...

There is no psychiatric evaluation, no IQ assessment, no description of the degree of intellectual disability, and no medical board report. Before recording the prosecutrix’s evidence, the then ...

The Court is very much conscious of the fact that the merits of the proposed amendment cannot be looked into. The fact, however, remains that no fruitful purpose would be served by granting ...

Section 41 of CrPC empowers police officers to arrest individuals without a warrant under specific circumstances. The provision covers various scenarios including when a person commits a cognizable ...

Witnesses to the panchnamas and the seizures acted as mere attestors to the documents and did not disclose in their own words as to how these objects were discovered, i.e., at whose instance and how.

decided on their own merits and in accordance with law. The appeal is allowed in the aforesaid terms.

widows in cases for application for probate, letters of administration, succession certificate and legal heirship certificate irrespectively. With this clarification, nothing further remains. 4. The ...