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The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Short notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday March 3 1941

1941

Mainly his point is that the section as amended in 1923 dprives the accused of the benefit of statments favourable to him made orally to the police and secondly that as now interpreed by the Judicial Committee the section excludes even exculpatory statements made to the police by an accused person. [...] 27 of the Evidence Act created by the omission to except matters covered by the latter from the operation of the former. [...] One may reasonably be pardoned if he gets the feeling that some such idea may he at the bottom of the curious practice of recordng the net effect of the statements of several witnesses tgether which has acquired the name of boiled statement " instead of recording the statements of individual witnesses seprately. [...] The effect of the language of the Code of 1898 however was to exclude such use of the statements and more than one Judge have opined that this was not proper. [...] It is also significant that in reverting to the language of the older codes the draftsman of 1898 lost sight of all this and also thought it fit to remove the second pargraph of sec.
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Short notes of Important Decisions of other High Courts in India Monday March 3 1941
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