The affidavit of desistance was considered not to have any probative value.

This kind of brazenness in an affidavit is completely unbecoming of the government.

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The Court ruled that the affidavit of desistance should be considered as hearsay, and had no probative value.

He swore in an affidavit on October 3, 2000, that he had filmed 27 minutes of the incident which he said had lasted 45 minutes.

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In that case, the Trial Court had ordered the release of a man accused of repeatedly raping a minor girl, because the victim had made an affidavit of desistance, and because she did not appear in Court.

In addition, the judge did not admit the affidavit of desistance of the alleged victim as evidence while she admitted his first statement, although both were equally confirmed by witnesses who did not have a personal knowledge of the facts.

On the issue of the alleged forged affidavit confirming the complainant's conviction for murder, it is argued that no objective evidence, other than a report from an investigator, was provided to prove that the complainant is not one of the convicted persons.

It states that following inquiries by the Swedish Embassy in Dhaka, it was established, after looking at the court records, that the complainant was not one of the 18 accused and convicted of murder, as claimed by him and allegedly confirmed in a lawyer's affidavit.

2.6 On 11 October 1995, the alleged victim, assisted by his parents, signed an affidavit of desistance, confirming the version of the facts as related by the author, and admitted that he had been part of a set up organized by police officers Augustin and Dancel.

The petition was withdrawn by the petitioner, after the ministry entered an affidavit, committing to take minutes of the nominations committee's hearings and instruct the committee members to act according to the rules of affirmative action, and an internal procedure in that fashion was issued in the ministry.