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Trial courts must consider cross-examination before summoning additional accused under Section 319 CrPC: Supreme Court
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said that a trial court cannot mechanically rely only on the statement-in-chief of a witness if the cross-examination has demolished the very basis of the allegations, to summon a person as an additional accused under Section 319 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC).A bench of Justices Manoj Misra and N Kotiswar Singh observed that when a witness has been cross-examined, the court must consider the deposition in its entirety, including the cross-examination, to
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