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1 - 10 of 21 (0.25 seconds)Section 25 in The Arms Act, 1959 [Entire Act]
Section 402 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Article 21 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
Section 137 in The Indian Evidence Act, 1872 [Entire Act]
Khatri And Ors. vs State Of Bihar And Ors. on 14 January, 1981
21. It has been held in the case of Khatri (2) v. State of Bihar (1981)
1 SCC 627 that "legal aid would become merely a fake promise and it
would fail of its purpose, if it were to be left to a poor ignorant and
illiterate accused to ask a for free legal services. The Magistrate or the
Sessions Judge before whom the accused appears must be held to be
under an obligation to inform the accused that if he is unable to engage
the services of a lawyer on account of poverty or indigence, he is
entitled to obtain free legal services at the cost of the State."