1995 (4) TMI 36

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..... e has to be resorted to only after letting in evidence and invited my attention to the decision of this court in Srinivasan R. v. G. Shanmugha Vaduvu [1983] LW (Crl.) 355. That was a case instituted on a private complaint. In that case, the complainant filed a petition under section 311, Criminal Procedure Code, praying for examining a person as a court witness. In such a situation, this court too .....

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..... justice and observed that section 244, Criminal Procedure Code, is wide enough to give power to a court to accept a supplemental or additional list of witnesses given by a complainant and to issue summons to them and record their evidence. All that the section says is that...... "the Magistrate shall proceed to hear the prosecution and take all such evidence as may be produced in support of the pr .....

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