Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 175 · Decided 30 March 2000
Nirmal Singh v. State of Haryana
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 175 · [2000] 2 S.C.R. 807
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 118/1998
- Decided
- 30 March 2000
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 307; CrPC Section 299(1), 299, 82, 366, 465; Evidence Act Section 33; Arms Act Section 302, 307, 25, 27
Headnote
B Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Section 299(1)-lndian Evidence Act, 1872-Section 33-Deposition of witnesses in absence of accused-Admissi- bility of-The procedure under Section 299 being exception to the principle embodied in Section 33, it is necessary that the pre-conditions for utilising c such other fact-Statement of witness uls. 299 tendered in evidence when death of the witnesses established-Whether the statements could be treated as evidence-Held, Yes. Indian Penal Code, 1860-Sections 302 & 307-Arms Act, 1959-Sec- D tions 25 & 27-Convictions under-Relying on statements
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