• Whether statement by an injured person recorded as FIR can be treated as a Dying Declaration and whether such a statement is admissible under Section 32 of the Indian Evidence Act? The Apex Court in following judgments held that depending upon the circumstances the Dying Declaration may not cover the whole incident or narrate the…

  • The Court could exercise its constitutional powers for transferring an investigation from the State investigating agency to any other independent investigating agency like CBI only in rare and exceptional cases. Supreme Court Judgment ANALYSIS : 43. Having heard the learned counsel appearing for the parties and having gone through the materials on record, the only…

  • “Denial of a fair trial is as much injustice to the accused as is to the victim and the society. Fair trial obviously would mean a trial before an impartial judge, a fair prosecutor and atmosphere of judicial calm. Fair trial means a trial in which bias or prejudice for or against the accused, the…

  • “The Prosecutor has a duty to the state, to the accused and the Court. The Prosecutor is all times a minister of justice, though seldom so described. It is not the duty of the prosecuting counsel to secure a conviction, not should any prosecutor even feel pride or satisfaction in the mere fact of success.”…

  • The Supreme Court in State of Haryana and Ors. vs. Ch. Bhajan Lal and Ors., AIR 1992 SC 604 held- “Human dignity is a dear value of our Constitution. But if a police officer transgresses the circumscribed limits and improperly and illegally exercises his investigatory powers in breach of any statutory provision causing serious prejudice…

  • 25. The appreciation of ocular evidence is a hard task. There is no fixed or straight-jacket formula for appreciation of the ocular evidence. The judicially evolved principles for appreciation of ocular evidence in a criminal case can be enumerated as under: “I. While appreciating the evidence of a witness, the approach must be whether the…

  • Dying declaration is one of the exceptions to the rule of hearsay. It is well settled that there is no absolute rule of law ‘that the dying declaration cannot form the sole basis of conviction unless it is corroborated’. The rule requiring corroboration is merely a rule of prudence. “32. It would not be out…


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