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About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) These notes cover the 57 most important cases of Indian Constitutional Law . They are the cases that keep coming up in LL.B. examinations, in judiciary examinations and in every serious discussion of constitutional law. Every case is studied…
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1977
The Andhra Pradesh High Court held that taking blood and semen samples from an accused for medical examination is not 'testimonial compulsion' and so does not violate Article 20(3) of the Constitution. The case matters because it draws the line between physical evidence from the body, which can be taken, and testimonial evidence from the mind, which cannot be forced out of an accused.
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