Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 553 · Decided 25 July 2016
Sukhram v. State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 553 · [2016] 3 S.C.R. 254
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 224/2012
- Decided
- 25 July 2016
- Bench
- V. GOPALA GOWDA, R. BANUMATHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 468, 471; CrPC Section 311; Evidence Act Section 73
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: s.311-A - Power of the Magistrate to order person to give specimen signatures or handwriting - Alleged incident of misappropriation of funds took place during 1983~86 - Trial court discarded the opinion of handwriting expert on the ground that the direction given to the witnesses to give handwriting specimen was not warranted as Executive Magistrate did not have authority to enquire into or try the offence -·Trial court held that in absence of legal evidence, it cannot be held that the accused had entered into conspiracy of committing forgery
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