https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272904 Section 479A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, being a special and summary perjury provision, requires strict construction and applies only to a witness who physically appears before the court and gives oral evidence or produces documents. A false affidavit, even if treated as evidence for some statutory purposes, does not fall within that class for Section 479A. Alleged false affidavit evidence must instead be dealt with under the general procedure in Section 476, which requires a preliminary enquiry. Proceedings under Section 479A therefore could not be maintained on the basis of a false affidavit alone. en-us Wed, 01 Apr 1964 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 24 May 2018 10:34:57 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272904 Section 479A of the Code of Criminal Procedure, being a special and summary perjury provision, requires strict construction and applies only to a witness who physically appears before the court and gives oral evidence or produces documents. A false affidavit, even if treated as evidence for some statutory purposes, does not fall within that class for Section 479A. Alleged false affidavit evidence must instead be dealt with under the general procedure in Section 476, which requires a preliminary enquiry. Proceedings under Section 479A therefore could not be maintained on the basis of a false affidavit alone. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 01 Apr 1964 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=272904