Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 41 · Decided 19 January 2012
Sudevanand v. State Through Cbi
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 41 · [2012] 2 S.C.R. 139
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 174/2012
- Decided
- 19 January 2012
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, RANJANA PRAKASH DESAI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC; CrPC Section 311, 164, 306
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: ss.311,· 391 - Summoning of approver for cross-examination - Permission A B for - Arrest of appellant and other accused in connection to C attempt on the life of the then Chief Justice of India - Two months prior to that, Railways Minister was killed - on remand, PW-1 made a confessional statement and requested to be allowed to become an approver - He was produced before a D Magistrate, before whom he made a statement u/s. 164 and became approver - Subsequently approver made retraction in 1978 in jail disowning his earlier statements -
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