Recording of statement: safeguards and formalities to ensure voluntary, authenticated evidence during search and seizure procedures. Recording of statement after a search must be conducted under summons with safeguards: each page signed by deponent and officer, a voluntariness endorsement, authenticated corrections, precise non-coercive questioning, language interpretation with certificate, exclusion of police from the room, confrontation with relevant documents for explanation and signature, clear thumb impressions for illiterate persons, withholding a copy on the spot, and recording a refusal panchnama with witnesses if the deponent declines to sign.
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Recording of statement: safeguards and formalities to ensure voluntary, authenticated evidence during search and seizure procedures.
Recording of statement after a search must be conducted under summons with safeguards: each page signed by deponent and officer, a voluntariness endorsement, authenticated corrections, precise non-coercive questioning, language interpretation with certificate, exclusion of police from the room, confrontation with relevant documents for explanation and signature, clear thumb impressions for illiterate persons, withholding a copy on the spot, and recording a refusal panchnama with witnesses if the deponent declines to sign.
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