Supreme Court of India

Parmananda Pegu v. State of Assam

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Reported as [2004] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 1
Bench P. Venkatarama Reddi and B.P. Singh JJ.
Decided 2 September 2004

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Before parting with the case, we must observe that the High Court fell into a serious error in not considering the case pf the appellant separately.

Judgment, page 16

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Criminal Procedure Code, 1973-Section 164-Confession, recording of-Procedural requirements laid down in sub sections (2) to (4) are mandatory and aimed to ensure that the confession is made voluntarily. Section 164-Retracted confession and corroboration-An accused can be convicted on the basis of his confession even though the retracted it later on-Ratio of the decision in Kashmira Singh case that confession cannot be made the foundation of conviction was rendered in the context of considering the utility of that confession as against a co-accused-This ratio was wrongly applied to the case of

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