Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 126 · Decided 4 May 1965
Aghnoo Nagesia v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1965 INSC 126 · [1966] 1 S.C.R. 134
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 37/1965
- Decided
- 4 May 1965
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, RAGHUBAR DAYAL, R.S. BACHAWAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
B Indian Evidence Act (! of 1872), s. 25-Ban on confession made to a police officer--Confessional F.J.R .. by accUsed-Ban whether applies to lvhole statement or only those part showing actual commission of crime. The appellant was tried for murder. The principal evidence against him consisted Qf a under s. 302 Indian Penal C Code by the trial court and the High Court upheld the conviction. By special leave he appealed to the Supreme Court. The question before the court was whether the whole confessional statemeQt in the first information report \Vas banned by s. 25 of the EvidencC
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