CourtMesh

Section 291: Deposition of medical witness

The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973Central Act · 1973

Repealed. This text is published for reference. It is not in force, and it should not be relied on as current law without checking what replaced it. Repealed by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, with effect from 1 July 2024

(1) The deposition of 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.

(2) 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.

STATE AMENDMENT

Gujarat

In the principal Act, in section 291, in sub-section (1), after the words “in the presence of accused”, the words “or, as the case may be through the medium of Electronic Video Linkage” shall be inserted.

[Vide Gujarat Act 31 of 2017, sec. 5.]

Where this provision sits

ActThe Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Section291
Marginal noteDeposition of medical witness
JurisdictionCentral
StatusRepealed
Judgments citing it3

Judgments that turned on this provision

1 of 3 judgments on CourtMesh that cite this provision. Create a free account to search all of them.

Find the provision, not just read it

The full text above is free, and it stays free. What a free CourtMesh account adds is everything you cannot do by reading one page at a time:

  • Search 49,000+ Central and State enactments by what a provision says, not by its number
  • Jump from any section to every judgment that has applied it
  • Search 300 million+ Indian court records alongside the statute
  • Ask a research agent to find and read the case law on a provision for you

Free account. No card. About a minute to create.

Create a free account

Need this as data, not as a page? The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 is one of 49,000+ enactments on CourtMesh. The Indian court cases API serves the case law that cites these provisions over JSON, with API documentation and plans and pricing. See also the judgment library.