Section 154 of the Code.
17) Mr. Sidharth Luthra, learned Additional Solicitor General appearing
for the State of Chhattisgarh, commenced his arguments by emphasizing ... called as the General Diary, Station Diary or Daily
Diary. He underlined the relevance of General Diary by referring to
various judicial decisions such
clearly pointed out, that there is a serious interpolation in the general diary maintained by the police and there was a good deal of delay ... forwarding the general diary to the higher officers. The learned Sessions Judge who had the original diary before him had found that there were interpolations
made with regard to the progress of the investigation in the General Diary of the Police Station and Anwar Ahmed went on duty ... Control Room which was duly recorded by him in the General Diary of the Station.
7. On receiving the message from the Control Room
manner in which
such diaries are to be maintained. These diaries are called case diaries or
special diaries. The Section itself indicates ... States the diary referred to in Section 172 Cr.P.C. is known as "special
diary" or "case diary
that he delib-
erately and wilfully posted false entries in the General
Diary to help A1.
The defence version on the other hand was that ... from his village Khajapur. That means
that the entry in the general diary that the deceased was
arrested on 20.10.1971 and was brought
about 1:30 a.m. on 20.02.2012 a
report vide General Diary Entry No.671 was made by PW-1 Ishwar Pradhan ... Village Kotwar. The entry Ext.P-37 was certified in
the General Diary by PW-13, Sub-Inspector Krishna Murari Mishra
every officer in charge of a police station to keep a general diary in such form shall, from time to time, be prescribed
also took note of the fact that the entries in the General Diary of 7-12-1993 and 8-12-1993 had been changed ... entry was admittedly made in the General Diary to that effect. Even the entries in the General Diary were changed
entered the same in the General Diary in the station. Thereupon, he, along with the constables, went to the Meenakshipuram police station and thereupon ... entered the statement given by P.W. 5 in the General Diary as P.W. 5 is not and eye-witness of the occurrence
sequence of events. Ex.D1 is the extract of the
general diary of Melapalayam Police Station. It has been entered
therein that ... there are two kinds of diaries. One is the station diary or
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