Accused Can't Be Faulted For Smart Replies, Interrogator Must Be Smarter To Extract Information: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court has observed that merely because an accused is smart in responding to the questions of the interrogator cannot mean that he is not cooperating in the interrogation. “Nobody is under a duty not to be smart. It is the interrogator who has to be smarter in order to elicit the requisite information,” Justice Girish Kathpalia said. The Court made the observations...