Supreme Court of India
Mukund Lal & Anr. v. Union of India.& Anr.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the opinion that the provision embodied in sub-section (3) of Section 172 of the Cr.P.C. cannot be characterised as unreasonable or arbitrary.
Judgment, page 5
From the headnote
Criminal Procedure Cade, 1973: Section 172(3)-Constitutionat validity of-Case diary and entries therein-Only Court entitled to call for and examine-Accused not entitled to cal/for diary. Constitution of India, 1950: Article 32_.:..Constitutional validity of Section 172(3) Cr.P. . 1973. Section 172(3) of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 provides that neither the accused nor his agents shall be entitled to call for the case diary, nor shall they be entitled to see them merely because they are referred to by the Court, but if they are used by the Police Officers to refresh his memory or ff the
Where later benches applied it
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to
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