Supreme Court · 1975 INSC 271 · Decided 6 November 1975
Badri v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1975 INSC 271 · [1976] 2 S.C.R. 339
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 61/1972
- Decided
- 6 November 1975
- Bench
- M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, P.K. GOSWAMI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 164, 145; Evidence Act Section 145
Headnote
Evidendc-Corroboration-Qua/ity. not quamity that matters. The appellant was convicted for the offence of murder. P.W. 1, brother. of the deceased, was the sole eye.witness of the crime and his statement was re­ corded by the Magistrate under s. 164, Code of Criminal Procedure, during of shooting and about the second gun shot. but observed that, because he tried to embellish his statement, it could not be said that he was an unreliable witness. The Court accepted his evidence since it found oorrobo­ ratiott in the evidence of P.W. 5 who said that he s.aw the appellant
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