SHAHNAWAZ AKHTAR Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) P. P. Gupta, J. This is a revision, filed by Shahnawaz Akhtar, against the order dated 20-3-1991 passed by the IV Additional Sessions Judge, Azam-garh, rejecting the application of the accused-revisionist and directing the prosecution to produce Rabiya Khatun, the wife of the revisionist, as a prose cution witness.

(2.) THE learned counsel for the revisionist was heard at length at the stage of admission. THE only ground pressed before me was that in view of Section 122 of the Indian Evidence Act, the wife of the revisionist, Smt. Rabiya Khatun, cannot be compelled to disclose any communication made to her during marriage.

(3.) FEELING aggrieved, the accused-revisionist has filed this revision,