Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 581 · Decided 5 May 2008
Ashok Kumar Chaudhary & ORS. v. State of Bihar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 581 · [2008] 7 S.C.R. 714
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 798/2008
- Decided
- 5 May 2008
- Bench
- C.K. THAKKER, D.K. JAIN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307, 3241, 324
Headnote
Evidence: Testimony of related witnesses - Evidentiary value of - c Accused assaulting the victims in a busy market - Conviction r by trial court - Upheld by High Court - Plea that no public I witness having been examined, related witnesses being ~ 'interested' , their testimony was liable to be happens to be a relative of the D victim of crime, he cannot be characterized as 'interested' witness - Relationship per se does not affect credibility of a witness - Further, non-examination of a public witness by itself would not give rise to an adverse inference against the prosecution - On
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