Supreme Court Annual Digest 2024: BSA & Evidence Act
Live LawBHARATIYA SAKSHYA ADHINIYAM, 2023, and THE INDIAN EVIDENCE ACT, 1872, - SUPREME COURT ANNUAL DIGEST 2024 CORRESPONDING SECTIONS and COMPARISON SUMMARY Appreciation of Evidence The High Court fails to appreciate evidence in a thorough manner and merely relied on a limited set of facts to arrive at a finding. Perumal Raja @ Perumal v. State rep. by the Inspector of Police, 2024 LiveLaw 8 : AIR 2024 SC 460 : 2024 CriLJ 1013 Section 23 Proviso - How much of information received from accused may be proved Section 27 IEA - Disclosure Statements and Link Evidence – Acquittal – Prosecution had failed to prove the guilt of the appellants beyond reasonable doubt. Ravishankar Tandon v. State of Chhattisgarh, 2024 LiveLaw 296 : AIR 2024 SC 2087 : 2024 CriLJ 2039 Section 27 IEA – To prove disclosure statement and the discoveries made in furtherance – The statement of an accused recorded by a police officer under Section 27 of the Evidence Act is basically a memorandum of confession of the accused recorded by the Investigating Officer during interrogation and taken down in writing. Babu Sahebagouda Rudragoudar v. State of Karnataka, 2024 LiveLaw 316 : AIR 2024 SC 2252 : 8 SCC 149 : 2024 CriLJ 2021 Section 27 IEA – Recovery of incriminating materials based on a statement given by the accused en route the police station before the recording of the statement under Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act at the police station is not admissible. Anees v. State Govt of NCT, 2024 LiveLaw 344 : AIR 2024 SC 2297 : 2024 CriLJ 2377 Section 145 IEA – The statement made by a witness before the police under Section 161 Cr.P.C.