Supreme Court · 2017 INSC 1027 · Decided 10 October 2017
Santosh S/O Dwarkadas Fafat v. The State of Maharashtra
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2017 INSC 1027 · [2017] 10 S.C.R. 129
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1759/2017
- Decided
- 10 October 2017
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3, 7; CrPC Section 161; Constitution Article 20(3)
Headnote
Bail: Anticipatory bail - Entitlement - Allegation against appellant that he received misappropriated food grains meant for public distribution - Appellant seeking anticipatory bail - Rejection C by the courts below - Before this Court, Investigating Officer of the opinion that custody of the his confessional statement in terms of what co-accused had already stated; and that he was not co-operating because he kept 011 reiterating that he had not purchased the food-grains - Held: Purpose of custodial interrogation is not just for the purpose of D confession - Right against
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