Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 620 · Decided 29 October 2020
Tofan Singh v. State of Tamil Nadu
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 620 · [2020] 12 S.C.R. 583
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 153/2013
- Decided
- 29 October 2020
- Bench
- R.F. NARIMAN, NAVIN SINHA, INDIRA BANERJEE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 46; Evidence Act Section 25, 26; Constitution Article 14, 20(3), 21; NDPS Act Section 42, 53, 67
Headnote
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985: ss. 42, 53 and 67 - Power under s. 67 - Extent, nature, purpose and scope of - Confession made under - Before the officers designated u/ss. 42 or 53 - Whether admissible as a substantive evidence - Held: be admitted as a substantive evidence - To hold that such statement can be the basis to convict a person under the Act would be a direct infringement of the constitutional guarantees contained in Arts. 14, 20(3) and 21 of the Constitution. Evidence Act, 1872: s.25 - Officers
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)