Supreme Court of India

Babu Singh v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [1963] 3 S.C.R. 749
Bench P.B. Gajendragadkar J.
Decided 28 August 1962

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Criminal Trial-Confession-Voluntariness of-Circuma-· tances showing confession involuntary-Duty of Magistrate recori£ing confession-Code of Criminal Procei£ure, 1898 (Act V of 1898), ss.164(3), 364(3). The appellants were tried for murder and for concealing the dead body. The evidence against them was their retracted confessions and the recovery of the dead body at the instance of appellant Babu Lal from his Kotha. The courts below held that the confessions were duly recorded and were voluntary and relying upon them and on the evidence of the recovery of the dead body convicted both the

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