Notes on tender of pardon to accomplice
S 306 of CRPC:- Tender of pardon to accomplice:-
1) With a view to obtain the evidence of any person who is supposed to have been directly or indirectly concerned in or privy to an offence to which this section applies, the chief judicial magistrate or metropolitan magistrate or first class magistrate may at any stage of investigation or inquiry tender a pardon to such person, on the condition that he will make a full and true disclosure of the whole of the circumstances within his knowledge relating to the offence and to every other person concerned in the commission thereof as principal or as an abettor.
The offences in respect of which such tender can be made are following:
a) Any offence which can be tried exclusively by session court,or by the court of special Judge appointed under criminal law amendment Act 1952.
b) Any offence which is punishable with imprisonment extending to seven years or more.
