Effect of errors

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..... led by such error or omission, and it has occasioned a failure of justice. Illustrations. (a) A is charged under section 180 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, with having been in possession of counterfeit coin, having known at the time when he became possessed thereof that such coin was counterfeit, the word fraudulently being omitted in the charge. Unless it appears that A was i .....

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..... Khoda Baksh on the 21st January, 2023. In fact, the murdered person's name was Haidar Baksh, and the date of the murder was the 20th January, 2023. A was never charged with any murder but one, and had heard the inquiry before the Magistrate, which referred exclusively to the case of Haidar Baksh. The Court may infer from these facts that A was not misled, and that the error in the charge was i .....

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