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Charandas Swami vs State Of Gujarat & Anr on 10 April, 2017

- Vinayak took out mobile from the person of the deceased and thereafter both of them came to their house. It also contains the statement that, thereafter, they contacted the father of the deceased from the mobile of the deceased to demand ransom of Rs 10 lakhs. It further contains the confession of the accused and the statement of the accused that, they are willing to show the place where the dead body of the deceased was concealed by them. In the evidence of very same witness i.e. P.W. 3 - Hitandra Katkar, panchanama of disclosure of the place where dead body was concealed by the accused and discovery of the dead body from the said place at the instance of the accused, has also been proved. The said panchanama is below Exhibit-34-A. 18] The learned APP wants us to believe all the admissions made by the accused persons. Their Lordships of the Apex Court, recently, in the case of Charandas Swami vs. State of Gujarat and Others1 have discussed the entire law on section 27. It could thus be seen that, only such fact which is deposed to and which leads to consequential discovery, whether it amounts to confession or not, 1 (2017) 7 SCC 177 19/47 ::: Uploaded on - 27/06/2018 ::: Downloaded on - 27/06/2018 23:11:24 ::: J-Apeal-684-10 & Apeal 459-10.doc would be admissible in view of section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act. Though, as per memorandum below Exhibit-34, many confessional statements of the accused have been recorded, we are of the considered view that, only such distinct information which has led to the discovery of the place from where the dead body of the deceased was recovered, would be admissible under Section 27. We are therefore of the view that, in view of memorandum and discovery Panchanama below Exhibit-34 and 34-A which have been proved in the evidence of P.W. 3 - Hitandra Katkar alongwith the evidence of P.W. 21 - IO Sunil Nigudkar. It could be seen that, the prosecution has proved that the dead body of the deceased was discovered from a place distinctly within the knowledge of the accused on the basis of the information given by them on a memorandum under Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act.
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