Supreme Court of India

Ritesh Sinha v. The State of Utiar Pradesh & Anr.

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Reported as [2012] 11 S.C.R. 683

Bench Aftab Alam and Ranjana Prakash Desai JJ.

Decided 7 December 2012

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons discussed above, I am unable to accept the views taken in the Bombay decision and to my mind the decision in Telgi is not the correct enunciation of law.

Judgment, page 66

From the headnote

Investigation: Identification of accused - Voice sample - Power of c Magistrate to issue summons to accused to appear before Investigating Officer and give his voice sample - Held: Taking voice sample of an accused by the police during investigation is not hit by Art. 20(3) of the Constitution - However, there is no specific provision either in the Code of Criminal Procedure 0 or in any other Jaw under which a Magistrate can authorize the investigating agency to record voice sample of a person accused of an offence - There being difference of opinion as regards the interpretation of the

Authorities it was built on

2007 Smt. Selvi & Ors. v. State of Karnataka cited by 17
1972 R. M. Malkani v. State of Maharashtra cited by 13
2007 Sakiri Vasu v. State of U.P. and Ors. cited by 12
1979 State of Maharasiitra v. Natwarlal Damodardas Soni cited by 11
1961 The State of Bombay v. Kathi Kalu Oghad and Others cited by 8
1970 S. N. Sharma v. Bipen Kumar Tiwari and Ors. cited by 6
1982 State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Swapan Kumar Guha & Ors. cited by 6
1976 Kisan Trimbak Kothula & Ors v. State of Maharashtra cited by 6
1980 State of U.P. v. Ram Babu Misra cited by 5
2006 Amrit Singh v. State of Punjab cited by 5
1976 Murlidhar Meghraj Loya Etc. v. State of Maharashtra Etc. cited by 4
2011 Nilesh Dinkar Paradkar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 3
1964 Shyamlal Mobanlal v. State of Gujarat cited by 3
1976 Bindeshwari Prasad Singh v. Kali Singh cited by 3
1979 V. S. Kutian Pillai v. Ramakrishnan & Anr. cited by 1
2011 Mohan Singh v. State of Bihar cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2023 Santosh @ Bhure v. State (g.n.c.t.) of Delhi referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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