A reader has compiled some citations related to prosecution for false allegations, perjury filed under CrPC 340 etc. This article should also be referred to for the IPC sections which may be applicable for a case filed under CrPC 340. ———————————————————————Citations below: ——————————————————————— The plaintiff humbly requests the Hon’ble Court to consider the following citations where various honourable apex courts condemned the act of perjury and explained why it is so important to prosecute the wrong doers in so many words. Hon‘ble Supreme Court in Swaran Singh v. State of Punjab, (2000) 5SCC 668 noted . “36. …… Perjury …[Continue Reading]
Perjury: IPC 191, 193: suo moto cognizance by supreme court
Summary: Advocate gone crazy makes patently false statement about age of Chief Justice of India, Supreme Court initiates suo motu perjury proceedings against the advocate gone crazy. The judgment is mainly useful to understand some of the important sections of IPC used to initiate a complaint under perjury. The full judgment text is given later. Important excerpts are given below about Sec 191 and 193 of IPC: We are satisfied that such a statement supported by an affricative of the respondent was known to him to be false which he believed to be false and/or atleast did not believe to …[Continue Reading]
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