Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) / Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS)

Code of criminal procedure / Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita

SECTION 291/326 – DEPOSITION OF MEDICAL WITNESS

· The deposition of a civil surgeon or other medical witness, taken and attested by a Magistrate in the presence of the accused, or taken on commission under this Chapter, may be given in, evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code, although the deponent is not called as a witness.

· The Court may, if it thinks fit, and shall, on the application of the prosecution or the accused, summon and examine any such deponent as to the subject-matter of his deposition

SECTION 292/328 - EVIDENCE OF OFFICER OF MINT

• Any document purporting to be a report under the hand of any such officer of any Mint or of any Note Printing Press or of any Security Printing Press (including the officer of the Controller of Stamps and Stationery) or of any Forensic Department or Division of Forensic Science Laboratory or any Government Examiner of Questioned Documents or any State Examiner of Questioned Documents,

• As the case may be as the Central Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf, upon any matter or thing duly submitted to him for examination and report in the course of any proceeding under this Code, may be used as evidence in any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code, although such officer is not called as a witness.

SECTION 293/329 – REPORT OF CDRTAIN GOVERNMENT SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS

I. Any Chemical Examiner or Assistant Chemical Examiner to Government;

II. The Chief Inspector of Explosives;

III. The Director of the Finger Print Bureau;

IV. The Director, Haffkeine Institute, Bombay;

V. The Director or Deputy Director or Assistant Director of a Central Forensic Science Laboratory or a State forensic Science Laboratory;

VI. The Serologist to the Government.

VII. Any other Government scientific Expert specified by govt.