Supreme Court of India
Santosh Gurung v. The State of Sikkim
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above, the law on the issue can be summarised to the effect that statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C. is recorded to meet the requirement of the principles of natural justice as it requires that an accused may be given an opportunity to furnish explanation of the incriminating material which had come against him in the trial.
Judgment, page 19
In brief
On 06.11.2013 the appellant, the victim's maternal uncle, allegedly took his young niece from his mother's house despite being told not to, and both were thereafter untraceable; a Missing Report was lodged on 12.11.2013. The appellant was traced at Siliguri only on 12.05.2014, and the FIR was registered on 13.05.2014 on the basis that he had admitted raping and throttling the child on 06.11.2013. The victim's body was never found; on 15.05.2014, on a memorandum under Section 27 of the Evidence Act, bones, teeth, clothes, a brown shawl and other articles were recovered from a spot frequented by fodder collectors and cattle herders and ordinarily visible to passers-by.…
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