The protection given to the accused under Article 20(3) against compulsion ‘to be witness’ also includes ordinary documentary and testimonial evidence:

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• In a case the accused who was a widower led a homely life with his 12-year-old son, nephew and unmarried daughter. The accused suffered from no insanity. One day the accused accompanied by his son went with an axe in his hand to woods to gather siadi leaves. Sometimes after his nephew who had been working in the field discovered the accused sleeping under a tree with the blood stained axe beside him. There was no trace of the son of the accused. Later his son was found hacked to death. It transpired in evidence that the accused for the time being was seized of a state of mind in which he visualised that a tiger was going to pounce on him and as such mistaking his son as the tiger he cut him into pieces.
• The accused & his wife sister’s husband B were sleeping out in the verandah. B got up & entered the accused wife’s room accused also got up & peeping through door he saw B & accused wife was having intercourse. He returned to his charpai & lay down. After some time B come back & lay down on the charpai. When B began to snore accused cutted down him by a knife which he was having with him. This case
• Give correct response. A was charged with the murder of his wife, takes the defence of insanity and in the alternative of being drunk at the time of commission of the crime and being thus incapable of forming the intent required in murder. It is also pleaded in defence that the accused was a psychopath. The evidence further discloses that the accused had indicated an intention to kill his wife before taking alcohol. Here :
• The accused without any provocation caught hold of the legs of a 7 year old child and dashed his head thrice in quick succession resulting in the death of the boy. Immediately after the occurrence the accused ran away. The accused pleaded insanity in defence.
• Consent given under compulsion arising out of threat of injury:
• Give correct response. A girl of 13 years while going to the market passed through the gate of a mill where B was the only watchman on duty. B in a bid to commit rape caught the girl. She struggled but the accused shut her mouth and pressed the thumb of the other hand on her throat to prevent her from screaming. The girl died. The accused was tried for murder. B pleaded intoxication in his defence. It was held that :
• The father of the accused was attacked by the deceased and suffered a simple injury on his head, the accused in order to protect his father administered a fatal below on the chest of deceased with Ballam
• The accused gave his wife a blow on her head with wooden rod rendering her unconscious. Belowing her to so dead the accused hanged her on a bean by rope in order to lay to foundation of a false defence of suicide and there by caused her death by strangulation is guilty of causing _______
• The accused shot dead his father who was abusing his mother and was going to cut her throat. The accused:
• The accused killed a girl by pouring acid on her person when he refused to marry him. She died after 12 days. The accused is guilty of