Case Name : State of Bombay vs Kathi Kalu Oghad
Case Reference: (1962) 3 SCR 10 :
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Case Number: Crl A 146/1958
Court: Supreme Court
Bench: 11
Coram: Chief Justice BP Sinha, SJ Imam, SK Das, PB Gajendragadkar, AK Sarkar, K Subba Rao, KN Wanchoo, KC Das Gupta, Raghubar Dayal, N Rajagopala Ayyangar, JR Mudholkar
Date: 04.08.1961
No infringement of right against self incrimination when an accused is compelled to give his specimen signature or handwritingincomplete
Article 20(3) includes both oral testimony and statements in writing
Mere mechanical process of producing documents which doesn’t contain an accused’s statement based on his personal knowledge is not self incrimination
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See also: Evidence - Section 27 [Evidence - Section 73]
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