1954 (3) TMI 1 - SUPREME COURT

Whether Section 94 applies to an accused person?

Whether there is any element of compulsion in it?

Held that:- Unable to read Sections 94 and 96(1), Criminal P.C., as importing any statutory recognition of a theory that search and seizure of documents is compelled production thereof. The searches with which we are concerned in the present cases cannot be challenged as illegal on the ground of violation of any fundamental rights and that these applications are liable to be dismissed. Appeal dismissed.