Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 356 · Decided 10 August 2001
State of Tamil Nadu v. Kutty @ Lakshmi Narasimhan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 356 · [2001] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 433
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 453/2001
- Decided
- 10 August 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, S.N. VARIAVA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; Evidence Act
Headnote
B Criminal Trial/Evidence Act, 1872 : Retracted Confession-Evidentiary value of-Held: Non-retracted confession is a rarity in criminal cases-It is injudicious to reject a judicial C confession merely because its maker has retracted from it-The evidence concerning the confession has to be evaluated Once these tests are satisfied the next step is to see if there is any other reason which stands in the way of acting on it. D Confession-Articles belonging to victims recovered prior to making of confession-Admissibility of-Held: Judicial confession does not become bad by reason of such
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