{"id":387159,"date":"2026-06-15T16:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=387159"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T11:02:16","slug":"allahabad-hc-witness-statements-recorded-before-summoning-of-accused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/06\/15\/allahabad-hc-witness-statements-recorded-before-summoning-of-accused\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Witness Statements Recorded Before Summoning Be Used Against an Accused? Allahabad HC Answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Allahabad High Court:<\/span> In a criminal appeal filed by the accused, challenging his conviction under <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/OYXq1CQ3\" target=\"_blank\">302<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/Z013073F\" target=\"_blank\">307<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/f4875yXb\" target=\"_blank\">506(2)<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/kK9FR9ud\" target=\"_blank\">148<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/1PRzKyy6\" target=\"_blank\">Penal Code, 1860<\/a>, the Division Bench of Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Subhash Vidyarthi JJ., allowed the appeal, after observing that the trial court had relied on witness statements recorded before the accused was summoned to face trial. The Court held that such evidence could not be read against the accused, particularly when the witness, after his summoning, did not support the prosecution. Accordingly, the Court set aside the judgment and acquitted the accused of all the charges.<\/p>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">On 8 March 2008, one &#8220;V&#8221; was sitting on a platform in front of his house when the accused along with 3 others arrived carrying firearms and opened fire. &#8220;V&#8221; sustained grievous gunshot injuries and was rushed to the District Hospital, Hardoi, and subsequently referred to Lucknow owing to his serious condition, where he succumbed to his injuries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The case was tried against four accused people, wherein the accused with 3 others were convicted. The trial court held that Witness 2 was an eyewitness of the incident, and he had also stated that the accused was carrying a country-made pistol and all the accused persons had fired with intention of killing &#8220;V&#8221;. The trial court held that it is established that the accused was involved in the incident and merely because one &#8220;P&#8221; has stated in his examination that the accused was not involved in the incident, the prosecution story does not become doubtful. Accordingly, the present appeal was filed.<\/p>\n<h3>Analysis<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court stated that the trial court erred, because Witness 1 had stated about involvement of the accused in his statement recorded on 1 February 2011, i.e., before the accused was summoned to face the trial, and this statement cannot be read against the present accused. Later, in his statement recorded after commencement of the accused&#8217;s trial, Witness 1 had stated that the accused was not involved in the incident and only this evidence could be read by the trial court for deciding the correctness of the charges levelled against him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Similarly, the Court stated that Witness 2&#8217;s statement was recorded on 25 February 2009 and after the accused was summoned to face the trial, Witness 2 did not come forward to get his testimony recorded. Thus, Witness 1&#8217;s testimony recorded was summoned to face the trial, cannot be read against the accused.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court observed that the evidence recorded prior to the accused&#8217;s summoning could not be read against him in view of Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001519543\" target=\"_blank\">273<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726935\" target=\"_blank\">Criminal Procedure Code, 1973<\/a> (CrPC). Referring to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hardeep Singh<\/span> v. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">State of Punjab<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0000050071\" target=\"_blank\">(2014) 3 SCC 92<\/a>, the Court held that evidence relied upon for summoning an accused under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001519596\" target=\"_blank\">319<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726935\" target=\"_blank\">CrPC<\/a> cannot form the basis of his conviction. Further, relying on <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Nirmal Singh<\/span> v. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">State of Haryana<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0000028924\" target=\"_blank\">(2000) 4 SCC 41<\/a> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Jayendra Vishnu Thakur<\/span> v. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">State of Maharashtra<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0000043553\" target=\"_blank\">(2009) 7 SCC 104<\/a>, the Court reaffirmed that an accused has a valuable and statutory right to cross-examine a witness, and statements recorded in his absence cannot be utilised unless conditions under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001519572\" target=\"_blank\">299<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726935\" target=\"_blank\">CrPC<\/a> are satisfied.<\/p>\n<h3>Decision<\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court held that the prosecution had failed to establish the accused&#8217;s guilt and the trial court&#8217;s conviction, rendered without adverting to the crucial aspects of the matter, was unsustainable in law, and accordingly acquitted the accused of all charges.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Pramod Kumar Singh<\/span> v. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">State of U.P.<\/span>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9003503866\" target=\"_blank\">2026 SCC OnLine All 10411<\/a>, decided on 22-5-2026<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For Appellant:<\/span> Suyesh Pradhan<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000080;\">Buy Penal Code, 1860 &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1158\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1158\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"penal code, 1860\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-294601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000080;\">Buy Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1031\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1031\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Code of Criminal Procedure\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-294422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">In the present case, the Allahabad High Court examined a challenge to a murder conviction, focusing on how much weight should be given to witness statements recorded at different stages of the trial, including those made before the accused was summoned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":387162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2510,66409,66778,107104,50705,107105,44430,53214],"class_list":["post-387159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-Allahabad_High_Court","tag-justice-rajesh-singh-chauhan","tag-justice-subhash-vidyarthi","tag-pre-summoning-evidence-admissibility","tag-right-to-cross-examination","tag-section-273-crpc","tag-section-299-crpc","tag-summoning-of-accused"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Allahabad HC on Witness Statements Recorded Before Summoning of Accused| SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Allahabad High Court stated that the witness statements recorded before summoning of accused cannot be used against him and acquitted the accused of all charges.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/06\/15\/allahabad-hc-witness-statements-recorded-before-summoning-of-accused\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Can Witness Statements Recorded Before Summoning Be Used Against an Accused? 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