Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 389 · Decided 12 September 2012
Darbara Singh v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 389 · [2012] 7 S.C.R. 541
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 404/2010
- Decided
- 12 September 2012
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; CrPC Section 4641465, 464, 465
Headnote
A B Criminal trial - Evidence - Inconsistency between medical evidence and ocular evidence - Effect of - Conviction of C appellant u/s.302 /PC - Challenge to - Defence plea that the manner in which appellant had been accused· of causing injury to the deceased was not at all possible because in consonance with the ocular evidence - Held: Not tenable - In the event of contradictions D between medical and ocular evidence, the ocular testimony of a witness will have greater evidentiary value vis-a-vis medical evidence and when medical evidence makes the oral testimony improbable, the
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