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PETITIONER: LACHMAN SINGH AND OTHERS
Vs.
RESPONDENT: THE STATE
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 21/03/1952
BENCH: FAZAL ALI, SAIYID BENCH: FAZAL ALI, SAIYID BOSE, VIVIAN
CITATION: 1952 AIR 167 1952 SCR 839 CITATOR INFO : RF 1954 SC 204 (5) D 1956 SC 116 (49,63) R 1956 SC 546 (5) R 1962 SC1116 (10) C 1965 SC 328 (8,9) R 1988 SC1353 (16) F 1990 SC1982 (3)
ACT: Evidence Act (1 of 1872), sec. 27--Statements of several accused leading to discoveries--Admissibility--Necessity of proof as to which statement was made first--Scope of sec. 27.
HEADNOTE: Three persons K, M and S, who were accused of murder made statements to the police which disclosed that the dead bodies after being dismembered were thrown into a stream and the police party thereafter went with the three accused to the stream where each of them pointed out a place where different 109 840 parts of the dead bodies were discovered. It was contended on behalf of the accused that it was only the information which was first given that was admissible under sec. 27 of the Evidence Act, that once a fact has been discovered in consequence of information received from a person accused of an offence, it cannot be said to be re-discovered in consequence of information received from another accused person, and that in the absence of evidence ...