Supreme Court of India
Percy Rustam Basta v. State of Maharashtra
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We hold that by the mere fact that the Customs Officer P. W. 5, who recorded the statement Ex.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
The appellant was convicted for offences under the Customs Act, 1962. He challenged the legality of his conviction on the ground that his statement to the customs authorities made on a summons issued under s, 108 of the Act and on which the conviction was substantially based was not admissible in evidence in view of s. 24 of the Evidence Act. It was contended that the statement was procured by threat in as much as the officer who recorded the statement warned the appellant that he was bound to state the truth as the officer was conducting a judicial proceeding to which ss. 193 and 228 of the…
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