SECTION 278 CrPC - Code of Criminal Procedure - Procedure in regard to such evidence when completed
(1) As the evidence of each witness taken under section 275 or section 276 is completed, it shall be read over to him in the presence of the accused, if in attendance, or of his pleader, if he appears by pleader, and shall, if necessary, be corrected.
(2) If the witness denies the correctness of any part of the evidence when the same is read over to him, the magistrate or presiding Judge may, instead of correcting the evidence, make a memorandum thereon of the objection made to it by the witness and shall add such remarks as he thinks necessary.
(3) If the record of the evidence is in a language different from that in which it has been given and the witness does not understand that language, the record shall be interpreted to him in the language in which it was given, or in a language which he understands.
Comments
Object of section 278 is not intended to permit a witness to resile from his statement in the name of correction; Mir Mohd. Omar v. State of West Bengal, (1989) Cr LJ 2070: AIR 1989 SC 1875.
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