The Supreme Court observed that a Ballistic Report forwarded by Director/ Deputy Director/ Assistant Director of a lab under the seal can be said to be in compliance with the statutory requirement under Section 293 Cr.P.C.Section 293 of the Code of Criminal Procedure reads as follows: Any document purporting to be a report under the hand of a Government scientific …
The Karnataka High Court has said that once search and seizure proceedings are undertaken by officials of the Income Tax Department under authorisation, they are not obliged to furnish any document to any public servant in respect of such matters relating to the assessee. Justice M Nagaprasanna said that, "On a conjoint reading of Sections 132 and 138 of the …
The Delhi High Court has reiterated that CFSL reports made by Government experts, which are admissible under Section 293 of CrPC without examining the author, are required to be tendered into evidence and cannot be relied upon unless the same was exhibited by some witness during the Course of trial. v. State, where a Division Bench of the High Court …
