Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 555 · Decided 9 July 1997
Harpal Singh Etc v. Devinder Singh and ANR. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 555 · [1997] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 648
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 796/1991
- Decided
- 9 July 1997
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, K.T. THOMAS (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 154, 162; Evidence Act Section 114(g)
Headnote
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 : Section 154-Delay in lodging FlR-Occu"ence taking place at 1.30 C PM and the FIR recorded at 4.50 PM -Time taken by the First Informant in shifting the injured to the hospital and making efforts to save his life-Held, delay not unreasonable. Sections 162 and be used for comparing D it with FIR-Merely because the IO elicited more details during further inte"ogation his evidence does not become suspect. E F G Section 157--Delay in dispatching the FIR-Held, does not affect the testimony of the person who lodged the FIR-Delay of 4 hours in lodging
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