Daau Ram vs State on 27 May, 2019
19. Again in Public Prosecutor v. Venkatarama Naidu,
AIR 1943 Mad 542, the question arose how the
notes of a speech taken by a police officer be
admitted in evidence. It was held that it was not
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necessary that the officer should be made to
testify orally after referring to those notes. The
police officer should describe his attendance, the
making of the relevant speech and give a
description of its nature so as to identify his
presence there and his attention to what was
going on, and that after that it was quite enough
it he said "I wrote down that speech and this is
what I took down," and if the prosecution had
done that, they would be considered to have
proved the words.