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High Court Rules & Orders(criminal)

Topic Serial # Content Case Law
 

POLICE DIARIES AND STATEMENTS BEFORE THE POLICE

 
1 When accused is entitled to see Police diaries or statement of a witness recorded by Police
2 Instructions regarding dispatch of Police diaries and their translation with the records of criminal cases to the High Court
3 Use of Police diary by Court
4 Use of statement of witness made before Police; when accused may get its copies
5 Method of contradicting a witness with previous statement
6 Use of First Information Report for purposes of corroboration of statement
7 Confession made by accused to Police is admissible in evidence if it has led to discovery of any fact
8 Dying declaration excluded from operation of section 162, Cr.P.C
 

CHAPTER 13

 
 

CONFESSIONS AND STATEMENTS OF ACCUSED PERSONS

 
1 Statements of accused at various stages explained
2 Use of confession of accused during Police trial recorded by Magistrate
3 Presumption attached to confessions recorded by Magistrate and its evidential value. Safeguards provided in law to obtain a voluntary and precisely recorded confession
4 Important features of Section 164, Criminal Procedure Code
5 Form prescribed for recording confessions
6 Instructions for recording confessions
7 7-A When remanding to the lock-up an
7 Accused who has made a confession should not be kept in Police custody, but should be kept in Judicial lock-up separate from other prisoners
8 8-A Accused can be questioned generally on the case only after prosecution evidence has been finished
8 Accused can be examined to explain the prosecution evidence against him and not to fill up gaps in that evidence
9 Failure to examine accused at the close of prosecution evidence vitiates the trial
10 Written statement of accused
11 Mode of recording examination of accused
12 When evidence may be led to prove that accused duly made the confession or statement
13 Instructions about recording confessions
 

CHAPTER 14

 
 

APPROVERS

 
1 Definition
2 When pardon may be tendered and by whom
3 Reasons for tendering pardon should be recorded and extent of pardon explained to the intended approver
4 Omitted
5 Testimony of an approver generally requires corroboration for conviction
6 Omitted
7 If approver gives false evidence he can be tried for the offence and also for perjury
8 Approver should be kept in judicial custody until close of trial
 

CHAPTER 15

 
 

PROCEEDINGS AGAINST ABSCONDERS AND RECORD OF EVIDENCE IN THEIR ABSENCE

 
 

PART A

 
 

MEASURES TO ENFORCE APPEARANCE

 
1 Attachment and sale of property
2 Proclamation
3 Consequences of non-appearance of proclaimed person; Sale of property
4 Directions for sale. Only life interest can be sold in certain cases
5 Property or its proceeds may be given to absconder if he appears before Court
 

PART B

 
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