Important Cases in Right of Accused Persons In D.K. Basu v | Judiciary UP

Important Cases in Right of Accused Persons

In D.K. Basu v. State of W.B (1997) 1 SCC 416, the Supreme Court, in this case, issued some guidelines which were required to be mandatorily followed in all cases of arrest or detention which include, the arresting authority should bear accurate, visible, and clear identification along with their name tags with their designation, the memo be signed by the arrestee and family member, the family or the friend must be told about the arrest of the accused, The arrestee may be permitted to meet his lawyer during interrogation, though not throughout the interrogation and many other.


In, Nandini Sathpathy v. P.L.Dani 1978 SCR (3) 608, wherein it was held that no one can forcibly extract statements from the accused and that the accused has the right to keep silent during the course of interrogation (investigation).

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