Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 309 · Decided 3 March 2025
C. Kamalakkannan v. State of Tamil Nadu REP. BY Inspector of Police C.B.C.I.D., Chennai
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 309 · [2025] 3 S.C.R. 629
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1056/2025
- Decided
- 3 March 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, SANDEEP MEHTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 109, 120B, 468, 471; CrPC; Evidence Act
Headnote
Whether a handwriting expert's testimony has to be corroborated; whether in the absence of primary evidence, i.e. the original postal cover, a copy of the document is admissible. Evidence law - Handwriting expert testimony - Murari Lal v. State of M.P. followed - No rule of law that opinion-evidence of a handwriting expert must never be acted upon, unless substantially corroborated - But approach should be one of caution - Appellant convicted under Penal Code 1860, under Sections
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