Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 243 · Decided 12 May 1999
Ram Prasad v. State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 243 · [1999] 3 S.C.R. 519
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 592/1994
- Decided
- 12 May 1999
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, D.P. MOHAPATRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 109, 150; CrPC Section 164; Evidence Act Section 32, 157
Headnote
B Indian Evidence Act, 1872-Section 32-Statement made to Magistrate under expectation of death but the maker survived-Held, not admissible, expectation of death not sufficient to wiggle it into th.e cassette of Section il c Section 157-Statement made under-Could be used only to corroborate the Accomplice evidence-Confessional statement given by approver­ lmportance to be attache~ for conviction-Held, it is imprudent to base conviction on it unless corroborated and it must pass test of reliability. Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Section 164-Statement made to Magistrate is not
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