Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 53 · Decided 1 March 1968
Ram Charan & ORS. v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 53 · [1968] 3 S.C.R. 354
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 175/1967
- Decided
- 1 March 1968
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, J.M. SHELAT, VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; CrPC Section 164
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure (Act S of 1898), s. 164-Smttment of wilness recorded under section-Evidence given by him in Court-Wtig/11 <Jf. The statements of eye witnesses to a murder were recorded under s. 164, Criminar Procedure Code, and a certificate waa appended to each of the statements to it might be used against him. On the question as to the weight to be attached to the evidenC< given by the witnesses in court. HELD : It dld not follow from the endorsement that anv threat was given to the witnesses or that it necessarily made their evidence in court ~uspect or less
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