Supreme Court · 1952 INSC 12 · Decided 4 March 1952
Kashmira Singh v. State of Madhya Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1952 INSC 12 · [1952] 1 S.C.R. 526
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 53/1951
- Decided
- 4 March 1952
- Bench
- BIJAN KUMAR MUKHERJEA, SIR SYED FAZL ALI, VIVIAN BOSE (3-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 3
Headnote
526 SUPREME COURT REPORTS (1952} KASHMIRA SINGH v. STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH [SAIYID FAZL Au, MuKHERJEA and v IVIAN BosE, J.J.] Indian Evidence Act (1 of 1872), ss. 3, 30-Confession of co-Occused-Evidentiary value-Evidence of accomplice--Necessity of ·corroboration-Confession-Practice of of evidence contained in sec. 3 of the Indian Evidence Act inasmuch as it is not required to be given on oath, nor in the presence of the accused and cannot be tested by cross-examination. It is a much weaker type of evidence than the evidence of an approver which is not subject to any of
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