Supreme Court of India

Harpal Singh Etc v. Devinder Singh and Anr. Etc.

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Reported as [1997] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 648
Bench M.K. Mukherjee and K.T. Thomas JJ.
Decided 9 July 1997

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Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 : Section 154-Delay in lodging FlR-Occu"ence taking place at 1.30 PM and the FIR recorded at 4.50 PM -Time taken by the First Informant in shifting the injured to the hospital and making efforts to save his life-Held, delay not unreasonable. Sections 162 and 154-Supplementary statement of the first infomiant recorded by the I 0-Vse of-Such statement cannot be used for comparing it with FIR-Merely because the IO elicited more details during further inte"ogation his evidence does not become suspect. Section 157--Delay in dispatching the FIR-Held, does not affect

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