The judgment will deprive investigators of a frequently used tool that critics said amounted to torture. It will also raise questions over the verdicts reached in dozens of murder cases where truth drugs were used.
A bench headed by Chief Justice K. G. Balakrishnan said yesterday that narcoanalysis, which involves a suspect being drugged with sodium pentothal and questioned, violates the Constitution, which says that “no person accused of any offence shall be compelled to be a witness against himself”. More...
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