Supreme Court · 2005 INSC 308 · Decided 25 July 2005
State of Punjab v. Sawaran Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2005 INSC 308 · [2005] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 786
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 763/1997
- Decided
- 25 July 2005
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, B.N. SRIKRISHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC; NDPS Act Section 18
Headnote
Code. of Criminal Procedure, I 97 3-Section 3 I J~Purpose of-Held: The provision is meant to give opportunity to accused to explain the evidence C against him-But when during trial, he r,Joes not seriously deny the allegations, then any omission during statement under Section 3 I 3 is not fatal to and on his search a bag was found suspected to contain opium D and a sample was taken. The sample and remaining content of the recovered substance was sealed and taken into possession by the IO. The two sealed packets were handed over to PW-1 and kept by him in Malkhana. On 9.6.1992, PW-1
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