Section 27 Evidence Act | Information Provided by One Accused Leading to Discovery Cannot Be Used to Link All Accused: Kerala High Court
The Kerala High Court, through Justice P.V. Balakrishnan, has recently delivered a significant ruling concerning the interpretation of Section 27 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. The Court held that information leading to discovery, given by one accused person, cannot automatically be used to implicate all accused in a criminal case. This judgment was pronounced in Crl. Rev. Pet. No.1438 of 2017, titled Selvan v. State of Kerala. Facts of…
