Navin Sinha

Supreme Court has on Monday said that it will pass a detailed order on a plea by Girish Sharma, witness in the multi-crore Public Distribution System (PDS) scam seeking transfer of the case from the trial court.

In a landmark judgment, the Court held that confession to officers under the Act is not admissible as evidence during trial and infringes on the Constitution. This will have ramifications for the Rhea Chakraborty case as well as others.

The Supreme Court has observed that the lathi is an identity of the people living in the villages. It cannot be called a weapon of attack.