Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 108 · Decided 27 April 1970
Shri N. Sri Rama Reddy ETC. v. Suri V. V. Giri
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 108 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 399
- Case number
- ELECTION PETITION (CIVIL) No. 4/1969
- Decided
- 27 April 1970
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, J.M. SHELAT, VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA, G.K. MITTER, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Election
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; Evidence Act Section 155(3)
Headnote
Evidence Act (I of 1872), ss. 146(1), 153, Exception (2) and 153 (3)-Tape-recorded statement of witness-Whether admissible to con­ tradict his Evidence in Court. The petitioners filed an election petition under the Presidential and Vice Presidential Election Act, 1952 and according to them by the publication and distribution of certain pam­ phlets containing scurrilou~ attacks on the defeated, presidential candidate. The name of persons who were alleged to have distributed the pamphlets were mentioned in the particulars supplied in the election petition, When one of them
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