Confessional statement, not signed or proved by the Magistrate who recorded it, cannot be treated as true u/s 164 CrPC: Gauhati High Court
The Gauhati High Court noted that after completion of the investigation, the petitioner was not examined under Section 313 of the Criminal Procedure Code, 1973, to enable him to personally explain circumstances appearing in the evidence against him, nor was his statement recorded.
