Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 791 · Decided 4 August 2022
Jai Prakash Tiwari v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 791 · [2022] 10 S.C.R. 198
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 704/2018
- Decided
- 4 August 2022
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, KRISHNA MURARI, HIMA KOHLI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 25, 27, 307; CrPC Section 313, 161; Arms Act Section 25, 27
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s. 313 - Power to examine the accused - Object and scope of - Held: s. 313 confers a valuable right upon an accused to establish his innocence - Purpose of s. 313 is to provide the accused a reasonable opportunity circumstances which have emerged against him during the course of trial - Non-fulfilment of the true spirit of s. 313 may ultimately cause grave prejudice to the accused and the court may not have the benefit of all the necessary facts and circumstances to arrive at a fair conclusion
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