Criminal Procedure Code · Updated to 1 May 2023 · Chapter XIII
113. Admission of statements in evidence
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Police statements from investigations generally cannot be used as evidence. The court may give the accused a copy of a witness's statement to challenge the witness. The accused may use their own statement in defence. Identification parade statements fall outside this section. The prosecution may use a statement against a person charged over making it or its contents.
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Except as provided in this section, no statement made by any person to a police officer in the course of a police investigation made under this Chapter shall be used in evidence.
When any witness is called for the prosecution or for the defence, other than the accused, the Court shall, on the request of the accused or the prosecutor, refer to any statement made by that witness to a police officer in the course of a police investigation under this
Court
“Court” means the High Court, a Sessions Court, or a Magistrate’s Court of any class, as the context may require;
Chapter and may then, if the Court thinks fit in the interest of justice, direct the accused to be furnished with a copy of it and the statement may be used to impeach the credit of the witness in the manner provided by the Evidence Act 1950 [Act 56].
Where the accused had made a statement during the course of a police investigation, such statement may be admitted in evidence in support of his defence during the course of the trial.
Nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to any statement made in the course of an identification parade or falling within section 27 or paragraphs 32(1)(a), (i) and (j) of the Evidence Act 1950.
When any person is charged with any offence in relation to—
offence
“offence” means any act or omission made punishable by any law for the time being in force;
the making; or
the contents, of any statement made by him to a police officer in the course of a police investigation made under this Chapter, that statement may be used as evidence in the prosecution’s case.