Section 311 Archives

Clearing of prosecution evidence not an absolute bar from re-examining materials/witnesses under Section 311 CrPC: Supreme Court

“The statutory provision goes to emphasise that the court is not a hapless bystander in the derailment of justice. Quite to the contrary, the court has a vital role to discharge in ensuring that the cause of discovering truth as an aid in the realization of justice is manifest.”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Aim of every Court is to discover the truth but it should be done judiciously; Recording of reasons for reversal of lower court’s decision vital: SC

“Wider the power, greater is the necessity of caution while exercise of judicious discretion”;

Case Briefs High Courts

Section 311 CrPC empowers Court to protect a petitioner against error of improper examination-in-chief by his counsel

Manipur High Court: A criminal petition seeking to allow the petitioner to recall himself as defence witness for re-examination, was allowed by