Supreme Court of India

Ramkishan Mithanlal Sharma v. The State of Bombay

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Reported as [1955] 1 S.C.R. 903
Bench Bhagwati, Jagannadhadas and Venkatarama Ayyar JJ.
Decided 22 October 1954

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that there was no misdirection at all in that part of the learned Judge's summing up to the jury.

Judgment, page 27

From the headnote

Code of Criminal Procedure (Act V of 1898), s. 162-Whether applicable to investigations under the City of Bombay Police Act (Bombay Act IV of 1902) prior to its repeal by Bombay Act XXII of 1951-Evidence relating to test identification parades-Whether and under what circumstances admissible under s. 162 of the Code of Criminal Procedul'e. Indian Evidence Act (I of 1872), s. 27-Evidence that discovery was made "in consequence of information given by the accused" or "at the instance of the accused", whether admissible, when the admis­ sible part of the information given is not sought to be

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