Separate the articulation of a denounced under areas 342 and 340(2), CR.P.C. Likewise, show the impact of not offering the inquiry by court to a blamed party to show up under 340(2).CR.P.C. While recording his assertion under Area 342, CR.P.C.The assertion 342 of Cr.PC is mandatory.The assertion in 340(2) is discretionary.The assertion of 342 can be recorded at any phase of request or trial,but by and large it is recorded after the fulfilment of arraignment proof.The blamed is asked in the articulation for 342 that he needs to give the assertion of 340(2). The assertion of 342 is recorded without a vow. The assertion in 340(2) is recorded with a vow. The assertion of 342 is without questioning The proclamation of 340(2) is interrogated The entire indictment proof is placed on the blamed in a little part in the explanation of 342. The assertion in 340(2) is kept in its entirety. It is obligatory under the arrangement of Area 364 that each question put to him (denounced) and each answer given by him will be kept in full. "It is the necessity of regulation that the explanation of the blamed record u/s 342 Crpc ought to be marked or thumb set apart by the accused. This obligatory arrangement of Area 364, in the event that it is not agreed with, amounts to lawlessness and is not an abnormality treatable under u/s 537 Crpc.

1989 P.Cr.L.J. 1591; 1991 P.Cr.L.J. 617Assessment of the blamed under Section 342 Cr.P.C. is definitely not a simple custom; however, it is a command to empower the blamed to make sense of any conditions showing up against him in the arraignment proof. PLD 2001 SC 568Regulation expects that all aspects of in criminative proof, conditions, truth, weapon of wrongdoing, thought process, and supplication of self protection and so on, tried to be utilized against him (charged), ought to be put to the blame u/s 342 Cr.p.c. for having his clarification. 1980 P.Cr.L.J. 771Except if a situation looks to be utilized and a charge is put against him under this part, it can't be utilized against him.1995 SCMR 1373, 1203; 1997 PCR.L.J. 1416