Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 187 · Decided 20 April 1998
State of U.P. v. Harban Sahai and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 187 · [1998] 2 S.C.R. 1056
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 692/1993
- Decided
- 20 April 1998
- Bench
- M.M. PUNCHHI, K.T. THOMAS, S. RAJENDRA BABU (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34; CrPC Section 154; Evidence Act Section 45
Headnote
OF U.P. le HARBAN SAHA! AND ORS. APRIL 20, 1998 [M.M. PUNCHHI, C.J.1., K.T. THOMAS AND S. RAJENDRA BABU, JJ.) Criminal law : C Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 : Section 154-FIR-Contents of-Held : FIR need not contain minor particulars of events-Merely because informant mentioned in Fl R that I 54-FIR-Promptness in flling--Held : Prompt and early reporting of the occurrence by the informant with all its vivid details give an assurance regarding truth·of his version. Section I 62-0mission to send bloodstained earth collected from place E of occurrence to the Chemical
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