Supreme court lays down requirements of valid panchnama as per S 100 of CRPC

[Educator]

In Yakub Abdul Razak Memon v. State of Maharashtra through CBI, Bombay MANU/SC/0268/2013 : (2013) 13 SCC 1, this Court noted that the primary intention behind the 'panchnama' is to guard against possible tricks and unfair dealings on the part of the officers entrusted with the execution of the search and also to ensure that anything incriminating which may be said to have been found in the