Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that the discrepancies in the FIR and in the statement given u/s 164 CrPC can’t be a ground to discharge an accused without starting a trial. According to a Bench of Justice Indira Banerjee and JK Maheshwari, such discrepancies could be a defence during the trial. In the instant case,
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