Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 135 · Decided 16 August 1978
Chandran v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 135 · [1979] 1 S.C.R. 176
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 588/1976
- Decided
- 16 August 1978
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, P.S. KAILASAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 120B, 34; CrPC Section 164
Headnote
Code of Cri111inal Procedure 1898-Magistrate not appending nien1orandum certifying that he believes that the confession was voluntarily made by the ' • accused-If fatal to the use of confession against accused at the trial. • Words and phrases-'Hope' and 'believe'-meaning of. The jewellery. The prosecution alleged that with a view to rob her of all her jewels, the appellant, who was formerly her servant, along with two others, decoyed her into a field nearby and murdered her \and took away all the jewels. In the confessional statement of the appellant recorded by the
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