The Supreme Court (SC) criticized the Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) who filed a reply before the SC in a criminal appeal stating that the accused was charged for commission of offence under Section 180 of the IPC, for refusing to sign a confession statement. The SC observed, “An officer, who is a DSP, ought to know that in terms of section 162, Cr. PC, no statement made by a person to a police officer in the course of any investigation under Chapter XII of the Cr. PC, which is reduced to writing, is required to be signed by the person making the statement and that section 180 of the IPC gets attracted only if a statement is refused to be signed which a public servant is legally competent to require the person making the statement to sign.”
