Supreme Court · 1957 INSC 36 · Decided 10 April 1957
Sarwan Singh v. The State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1957 INSC 36 · [1957] 1 S.C.R. 953
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 22/1957
- Decided
- 10 April 1957
- Bench
- B. JAGANNADHADAS, BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 164
Headnote
COURT REPORTS SARW AN SINGH v. THE STATE OF PUNJAB (with connected appeal) []AGANNADHADAS, B. P. SrNHA and GA JENDRAGADKAR JJ.] . 953 Confession-Procedure-Duty of the Magistt·ate-Time to be given to accused to decide to make the confession-Corroboration-­ Approver-Reliability- Test- which it considered reliable, and the confession made by the first appellant which it found to be voluntary and true. The High Court held that the evidence of the approver as against G was very discrepant and unreliable and set aside his conviction but, never­ theless, confirmed the
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