Delayed Disclosure By Witnesses About Extra-Judicial Confession Untrustworthy: Chhattisgarh HC [Read Judgment]

The Chhattisgarh High Court, in Radheshyam Kashyap vs. State of Chhattisgarh, has observed that delayed disclosure by witnesses to the police about alleged extra-judicial confession made by the accused, despite their prior meeting with the police, would make the evidence untrustworthy.In the instant case, the witnesses, parents of the deceased, made a statement that the accused had confessed...