Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 13 · Decided 3 January 2024
Perumal Raja @ Perumal v. State, REP. BY Inspector of Police
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 13 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 87
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 863/2019
- Decided
- 3 January 2024
- Bench
- SANJIV KHANNA, SARASA VENKATANARAYANA BHATTI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302, 201; Evidence Act Section 27, 25, 24
Headnote
Accused not formally arrested at the time of giving information if can be deemed to be in the 'custody' of the police, admissibility of evidence in terms of s.27, Evidence Act, 1872. Conviction and sentence of the Penal Code, 1860, if justified. Evidence Act, 1872 - s.27 - "in the custody of a police officer" - Interpretation - Case based on circumstantial evidence - Appellant was taken into custody during the course of investigation for the murder of
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