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Supreme Court of India2010Case record
Sanatan Naskar v. State of West Bengal
(2010) 8 SCC 249
Answers in Section 313 can be taken into consideration but cannot form the sole basis of conviction without substantive prosecution evidence.
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Supreme Court of India1984Case record
Sharad Birdhichand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra
(1984) 4 SCC 116
Circumstances not put to the accused in their Section 313 examination cannot be used against them; golden principles of circumstantial evidence (panchsheel). | Mandatory questioning on all incriminating circumstances applied to Section 351 BNSS.
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Supreme Court of India2010Case record
Sanatan Naskar v. State of West Bengal
(2010) 8 SCC 249
Answers in Section 313 can be taken into consideration but cannot form the sole basis of conviction without substantive prosecution evidence.
Read case
Supreme Court of India1984Case record
Sharad Birdhichand Sarda v. State of Maharashtra
(1984) 4 SCC 116
Circumstances not put to the accused in their Section 313 examination cannot be used against them; golden principles of circumstantial evidence (panchsheel). | Mandatory questioning on all incriminating circumstances applied to Section 351 BNSS.
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