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Dr Ajee Kuruvilla.
INQUEST
COURTS
EVIDENCE
INQUEST
* Coroners inquest
* Police inquest
* Magistrate inquest
* Medical examiner system
CORONER
* Usually an advocate
* Attorney or Pleader
* First Class Magistrate with 5yrs experience
* Metropolitan Magistrate
* Medical Person
POWERS OF CORONER
Empowered to inquire into the causes of all unnatural or
suspicious deaths.
Panchas
Panch Witnesses
Panchayatdars
* Exhumation cases
* Dowry deaths
Reasons of Magistrates Inquest
* No person is deprived of his liberty and his rights
as a citizen.
b) Trial in a court.
a) Coroners inquest.
c) Trial by Jury.
d) Magistrates inquest.
5. Police inquest is NOT applicable
in one of the following situations.
a) Suicide.
b) Accidental death.
c) Homicide.
d) Dowry-related death.
6. Magistrates inquest is
mandatory in which one of the
following cases.
a) Custodial death.
b) Exhumation
c) Dowry death
a) Calcutta
b) Bombay
c) Delhi
d) No part of India
8. Medical Examiners system is
practiced in
a) India
b) U.K.
c) U.S.A.
d) Ireland
9. Which of the following methods of
investigation is the most ideal in
unnatural deaths.
a) Police inquest.
b) Coroners inquest
c) Magistrates inquest
Life imprisonment
Imprisonment/ rigorous/simple/solitary
Fine
* Subpoena
* Oath of Affirmation
* Recording of evidence / Proof
* Decision of Judge / Court
* Execution of Court orders
Subpoena / Summons
Common witness
* Expert or skilled
Expert witness-
chemical examiner
finger print expert
ballistic expert
forensic expert
doctor
EVIDENCE
* Oral Evidence
* Documentary evidence
Oral Evidence :
It is the evidence of a person who says he saw,
heard or perceived it in other words actual
witness.
Documentary Evidence
Sickness certificate
Medical fitness certificate
Fitness for employment
Vaccination certificate
Death certificates
Medico legal reports
Secondary Evidence
Circumstantial Evidence
- Brouanrdel
An Oath
Perjury
Examination-in-chief
Cross-examination
Re-examination
Question by Judge
Examination-in-chief
* Followed by examination-in-chief
* Examined by counsel for opposite party
* To bring out inaccuracies and
contradictions in his statements.
* To extract any facts which may be
favorable to his Client
* Leading questions are allowed.
* Cross examination need not be confined
to the statements;
= Qualification
= Experience
= Professional knowledge
= Character
* No time limit for cross examination.
Re-examination:
a) Defender lawyer
b) Public prosecutor
c) District attorney
d) Police lawyer
11. The highest judicial appellate
tribunal in India is
a) High Court
b) Supreme Court
d) Parliament
1. A chief judicial magistrate can impose
punishment up to
a) Hanging
b) Electrocution
c) Gassing
d) Lethal injection.
3. A juvenile offender (male) is one who
is below
a) 16 years
b) 14 years
c) 18 years
d) 21 years
13. The term Subpoena is also referred
to as
a) Summons
b) Panchnama
c) Warrant
d) Requisition
16. The literal meaning of Subpoena is
a) Under penalty
b) Under suspension
c) Under force
d) Under threat
18. Regarding attendance in a court of law to give
evidence, all of the following are true, EXCEPT
a) Criminal cases have priority over civil cases
b) Higher courts have priority over lower courts.
a) District collector
b) Superintendent of Police
c) Magistrate
b) Inquest report
a) Damages.
b) Fine
c) Imprisonment
a) Secondary evidence
b) Impersonal evidence
c) Hearsay evidence
d) Circumstantial evidence
7. Dying declaration is a statement made
by
a) The accused in a criminal offence just
before the victims death
b) A victim of a criminal offence just before
his death
c) A witness in a criminal offence just
before the victims death
d) Any person in his death bed.
8. When a magistrate is available to
record a dying declaration, the role of
a doctor is
a) Rendered superfluous
b) To act as a witness