Supreme Court of India
Sarwan Singh v. The State of Punjab
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What the Court ordered
In the result, the appeal preferred by Sarwan Singh must be allowed, the order of conviction and sentence passed against him must be set aside and he must be acquit ted and discharged.
Judgment, page 18
From the headnote
Confession-Procedure-Duty of the Magistt·ate-Time to be given to accused to decide to make the confession-Corroboration- Approver-Reliability- Test- Corrobation-Code of Criminal Proc:edure (AC! V of 1898), s. 164. The appellants and were convicted of the offence of murder by the Sessions Court on the basis of the evidence of the approver, which it considered reliable, and the confession made by the first appellant which it found to be voluntary and true. The High Court held that the evidence of the approver as against was very discrepant and unreliable and set aside his conviction but,
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