Landmark Judgments

Palvinder Kaur Vs. State of Punjab, AIR 1952 SC 354 (Confession as a whole)


Palvinder Kaur Vs. State of Punjab, AIR 1952 SC 354 (Confession as a whole)

In this case, the lady made a statement that her husband took poison by mistake and died and that she out of fear put his body in a trunk and threw it into a well. The lower court relied up on the latter part of her statement and convicted her for the offence of destroying evidence under Section 201 of IPC. (Section 238 of BNS) But the first part of her statement that the death of her husband was accidental exonerated her of any offence and it that is taken into consideration, no offence under Section 201 of IPC (Section 238 of BNS ) is made out . Their Lordship held that admission or confession should be taken as a whole .