Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 17 · Decided 14 February 1957
Nisar Ali v. The State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 17 · [1957] 1 S.C.R. 657
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 150/1956
- Decided
- 14 February 1957
- Bench
- NATWARLAL HARILAL BHAGWATI, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, J.L. KAPUR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 114; Evidence Act Section 157
Headnote
COURT REPORTS 657 before, the point is really concluded by decisions of the highest tribunal, · decisions which correctly lay down the law. The result therefore is that these peti­ tions are devoitl of all merit and must be dismissed. Petitions dismissed. NISAR ALI v. THE ST ATE OF Whether should be 1·ejected in tote>. A first information report is not a substantive piece of evidence and can onlv be used to corroborate the statement of the maker under s. 157 ~£ the Evidence ·Act or ID contradict it under s. 145 of that Act. It ·cannot
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