Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 300 · Decided 24 November 1976
Chhotan Prasad Singh & ORS. v. Hari Dusadh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 300 · [1977] 2 S.C.R. 174
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 316/1971
- Decided
- 24 November 1976
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, A.C. GUPTA, P.N. SHINGAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 145(1), 145; Evidence Act
Headnote
Oaths .Act 1~7~-Section 4--General Clauses Act 1897, sec. 3(3)-Meaning ·of affidavzt-C!·zmmal. Procedure Code 1898-Section 145(1), whether a!fidai•its before a Magistrate in 145 (l) proceedrngs must be sworn before any other authority empowered to administer oath. Proceedings between the parties. The appellants filed affidavits before the !Magi~t!ate. The said affidavits were not swo~n before the 1\1agistrate who was m se1sm of the case but were sworn before some other Magistrate. It was con· tended before the Magistrate by the respondents that the said
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