PLD 2017 LAHORE 228
Ss. 161 & 172---Statement made by complainant before the investigating officer---Right of accused to obtain copy of such statement---Scope----Statements of all persons examined by the police in connection with the case were to be supplied irrespective of the fact, whether they had or had not been cited by the prosecution as witnesses, and it was immaterial whether the investigating officer did or did not choose to say that he was recording the statements under S.161 Cr.P.C.---Accused could not be deprived of the right of having access to statements made by witnesses before the police on the hyper-technicality that the investigating officer did not describe them as statements under S.161 Cr.P.C,---All statements made before the police, whether recorded under S.161 Cr.P.C. or not, should be supplied to the accused before the trial---Accused must have access to every statement recorded by the investigating officer, either under S.161 Cr.P.C. separately or having embodied it in a case-diary prepared under S.172 Cr.P.C.
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