Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 365 · Decided 19 April 2017
Balakram v. State of Uttarakhand & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 365 · [2017] 5 S.C.R. 367
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 694/2017
- Decided
- 19 April 2017
- Bench
- DIPAK MISRA, A.M. KHANWILKAR, MOHAN M. SHANTANAGOUDAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; CrPC Section 172, 172(3), 145, 172(2); Evidence Act Section 145, 161
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 197 3 - s.172 -: Application filed A B by accused to file copies of police diary after completion of examination-in-chief of police officer to cross-examine him .~ C Propriety of - Held: U/s. 172(3) the right. of accused to cross-examine the police officer entries in the police diary is very much limited in extent and evei1 that limited scope_ arises only when the Court uses the entries to contradict the police officer or when police officer uses it for refreshing memories D . - Accused cannot force the police officer to. refresh his ml!;,,pry
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