Criminal Manual 150 — Section

Gujarat High Court Criminal Manual (subordinate court practice), 1977

Statutory text

(1) The memorandum should be made and the depositions should be recorded, so as to leave a quarter margin on each page so as to facilitate the binding of the record.

(2) The deposition of every witness should be read over to him in the presence of accused if in attendance or his pleader if he appears by pleader and shall if necessary, be corrected. If the witness denies the correctness of any part of the evidence when the same is read over to him, the Magistrate or the Judge may instead of correcting the evidence make a memorandum thereon of the objection made to it by the witness and shall add such remarks as he thinks necessary. The Magistrate or the Judge should also note the fact of having read over the deposition to the witness, at the end of each deposition thus recorded by him, and should also make an endorsement that the witness admits the correctness thereof.

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