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INTRODUCTION
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The law of evidence is the most important branch of
wheat from the chaff among the mass of facts that are
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Section 167 and its Scope
1 . Himanshu Singh Sabhanwal v. State of M.P., Transfer Petition No. 175 of 2007,
decided by the Supreme Court on 12/03/2008 ordering for transfer of murder
case of Petitioner’s father from the Sessions Court Ujjain to Nagpur (AIR 2008
SC 1943).
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Nagpur who acquitted all the accused on 13.7.2009. The
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new trial in civil cases but it has been given indirectly
2 Remand of case by Appellate Court:- Where the Court from whose decree an
appeal is preferred has disposed of the suit upon a preliminary point and the
decree is reversed in appeal, the Appellate court may, if it deems fit, by order
remand the case, and may further direct what issue or issues shall be tried in
the case so remanded, and shall send a copy of its judgment and order to the
Court from whose decree the appeal is preferred, with directions to re-admit the
suit under its original number in the register of civil suits, and proceed to
determine the suit; and the evidence (if any) recorded during the original trial
shall, subject to all just exceptions, be evidence during the trial after remand.
3 Sir John Woodroffe & Syed Amir Ali’s Law of evidence, 17th Edi.,Lexis Nexis
Publications , IVth Vol. p. no.6273
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1) First Appeal:- In this regard reference to the case of
this context. The Court in this case said that the court
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wrongfully rejected by the first court, the appellate
(1) The parties to an appeal shall not be entitled to produce additional evidence,
whether oral or documentary, in the Appellate Court. But if-
(a) The Court from whose decree the appeal is preferred has refused to admit
evidence which ought to have been admitted, or
(aa) The party seeking to produce additional evidence, establishes that
notwithstanding the exercise of due diligence, such evidence was not within his
knowledge or could not, after the exercise if due diligence, be produced by him at
the time when the decree appealed against was or)
(b) The Appellate Court requires any document to be produced or any witness to
be examined to enable it to pronounce judgment, or for any other substantial
cause,
The Appellate Court may allow such evidence or document to be produced, or
witness to be examined.
(2) Wherever additional evidence is allowed to be produced by an Appellate Court,
the Court shall record the reason for its admission.
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excluding the confession, other evidence was sufficient
justice12.
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advice which a judge, in exercise of a sound judicial
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is a possibility for the appellate court to judge as to what
the Sessions Judge before whom the trial was held and
witnesses.
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the trial was wrong17. There should be strong reasons for
Hypothesis
outside the State of M.P. as BJP was the ruling party with
whom guilty had nexus. The case was heard by Sessions
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occasioned a failure of justice through his verdict, the order
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Admission and Rejection of Evidence so as to suggest the
evidence,
rejection of evidence,
(v) to study the hurdles & problems in the procedure
rejection of evidence
Research Methodology
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rejection of evidence in the society, the documents analyzed
Scheme of Study
civil and criminal cases and its impact upon them has been
highlighted here.
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minute details of the law of evidence and the research
the Privy Council, the Supreme Court and the different High
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Sixth chapter deals with the Global Trend, in which
against the problem under study have also been given here
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