Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 327 · Decided 2 December 1968
Nishi Kant Jha v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 327 · [1969] 2 S.C.R. 1033
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 190/1966
- Decided
- 2 December 1968
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, J.C. SHAH, V. RAMASWAMI, G.K. MITTER, A.N. GROVER (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 342
Headnote
Evidence-Statement made ta village Mukhiya before accused handed over to police-Whether admissible-Statement whether to be acted upon as a whole. The appellant was charged for the murder of a fellow student in a railway compartment. The appellant was noticed washing blood-stained clothes, and village Mukhiya, where he made a statement and signed it. In this statement, he admit­ ted his presence at the scene of murder but stated that the crime was committed by someone else, that he was injured by the knife of assailant when he tried to prevent the crime, and that when the assailant
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