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District watch in pictures: GAIBANDHA: Mahmud Hasan Rimon, former President of Chhatra League distributing relief goods among the flood- hit people at Jhumarbari Union on Saturday.

22 Jul 2019, 12:00 am0

GAIBANDHA: Mahmud Hasan Rimon, former President of Chhatra League distributing relief goods among the flood- hit people at Jhumarbari Union on Saturday.

Allowing benefit of doubt to serve the ends of justice

(From previous issue) 13. In Shivagi vs State of Maharashtra, A,IR 1973 SC 2622, K Iyer, J speaking for the Supreme Court observed: “It is trite law, nevertheless fundamental that the prisoner’s attention should be drawn to every inculpatory material so as to enable him to explain it. This is the basic’ fairness of a criminal trial and failures in this area may gravely imperil the validity of the trial itself; if consequential miscarriage of Justice has flowed. However, where...

5 Apr 2014, 12:00 am