Insertion of the provisio in Section 242 of the Criminal Procedure Code, is a giant step in the Criminal Law, as many could not grasps the meaning of Case Diary under section 172 of the CrPc which is regarded as a privelege of the Court and the Prosecution only and not the defense Counsel, and as a result of this the defense Cousel were denied the statements of the witnesses recorded by the Investigating Officer in case diary which consists of two parts one the statements of the witnesses and the other consistings of day to day actions of the IO of the case that is entered in the case Diary. And in such a trial without the statements of the winesses the defense Counsel has to act like a blind man trying to catch a sparrow.And this is despite the rulings of the supreme Court that accused is entitled to get the copies of the statements of the witnesses and not the second parts of the case diary. By inserting the new provision in section 242 of the Criminal procedure Code, it is now very claer on this subjects, and Parliament has done the right things by inserting the provisio in section 242 of the CrPc, and this is all due to the Supreme court, which had suggested the Governmnt in some cases to amend the law in this regards.
