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Duty on accused person who retracts his confessional statement
Effect of failure to retract a confessional statement at the earliest opportunity
Effect of retraction of a confessional statement
How an accused person can impeach his retracted statement
Legal effect of a retracted confessional statement
Meaning of retracted confessions
Procedure to be followed where a confessional statement is retracted/denied
Tests to be applied by the court before it can act on a retracted confessional statement
The principle that the court should look for other evidence where a confessional statement is retracted
Ways in which an accused may resile from a confessional statement
Whether an accused person can retract a confessional statement after its admission without objection from the defence
Whether an accused person who retracts his confessional statement must give reasons for his inconsistency
Whether a piece of evidence with doubtful background can corroborate a confessional statement which is being retracted
Whether a retracted confessional statement can ground a conviction
Whether a retracted confessional statement ceases to have probative value
Whether a retracted confessional statement is inadmissible
Whether a retraction of the punctuation marks in a confessional statement renders it inadmissible
Whether does not constitute a retraction
Whether the court will look for evidence outside the retracted confession of an accused before convicting him on same
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