https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=167230 A complaint case preceded by police investigation requires complete disclosure to the accused at the start of trial, even though the Code does not expressly extend Section 207 to cases instituted otherwise than on a police report. The Court treated natural justice and the constitutional requirement of a just, fair and reasonable procedure as controlling, so the accused was entitled to copies of Section 161 statements and documents seized during investigation that the prosecution proposed to rely on. Voluminous material could be inspected instead of copied, and copies were not necessarily to be supplied free of cost. en-us Mon, 11 Jun 1984 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:22:51 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=167230 A complaint case preceded by police investigation requires complete disclosure to the accused at the start of trial, even though the Code does not expressly extend Section 207 to cases instituted otherwise than on a police report. The Court treated natural justice and the constitutional requirement of a just, fair and reasonable procedure as controlling, so the accused was entitled to copies of Section 161 statements and documents seized during investigation that the prosecution proposed to rely on. Voluminous material could be inspected instead of copied, and copies were not necessarily to be supplied free of cost. Case-Laws Customs Mon, 11 Jun 1984 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=167230