Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 104 · Decided 22 March 1990
State (Through CBI/NEW Delhi) v. S.J. Choudhary
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 104 · [1990] 2 S.C.R. 124
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 461/1987
- Decided
- 22 March 1990
- Bench
- S. RATNAVEL PANDIAN, K. JAYACHANDRA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Matter referred to larger bench
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 45
Headnote
Indian Evidence Act, 1872: S. 45-0pinion of typescript expert-Whether admissible in evidence -Question referred to larger Bench. A device parcel containing camouflaged live hand grenade exploded in the hands of the addressee resulting in his instantaneous death. The police collected from the scene had been wrapped and sent them to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory where they succeeded in partially reconstructing the name and address of the deceased. ~''1ese were then examined by the Head of the Document Division in the said Laboratory with reference to the specimen of typing
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