Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 69 · Decided 17 September 1957
Bakhshish Singh v. The State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 69 · [1958] 1 S.C.R. 409
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 205/1956
- Decided
- 17 September 1957
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, P. GOVINDA MENON, J.L. KAPUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 34; Evidence Act Section 32(1)
Headnote
COURT REPORTS BAKHSHJSH SINGH v. THE STATE OF PUNJAB (B. P. SINl{A, P. GOVINDA MENON and J. L: KAPUR JJ). 409 Criminal lair-Dying declaration-Scope of-Recording state­ ment in Urdu. while deceased spoke in Punjahi-Reliability­ Discretion of .the prosecutor in calling witnesses-Tndian ground that though the deceased gave the narrative of events in Punjabi the statement was taken down in Urdu. Held, that in view of the fact that in the Punjab the language used in the subordinate courts and by the Police for recording statements has always been Urdu, the recording of dying
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