Supreme Court of India

U.T. of Dadra & Haveli and Anr. v. Patel Sinh Mohansinh Chauhan

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 522
Bench G.P. Mathur and A.K. Mathur JJ.
Decided 14 August 2006

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeal is allowed and the judgment and order dated B 8.10.2004 passed by the High Court is set aside and the order dated 12.8.2004 of the learned Sessions Judge is restored. v.s.s.

Judgment, page 14

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Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973: Section 311-Material witness-Summoning of-Power of Court-When amounts to filling of a lacuna in the prosecution case-Plea of alibi­ Accused was assigned the role of instigation in an incident-In his statement under S. 313 Cr.P. . the accused took a plea of alibi that, at the time of the alleged incident, he was present in the chamber of the Collector as a meeting had been called there-The Special Public Prosecutor moved an application under S. 311 Cr.P. . for summoning the Collectur to be examined as a witness-Sessions Judge allowed the applic:ation-But the

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