Supreme Court · 1997 INSC 700 · Decided 21 October 1997
Guljar Ali ETC. v. State of Himachal Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1997 INSC 700 · [1997] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 559
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 657/1996
- Decided
- 21 October 1997
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, K.T. THOMAS (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 107; Evidence Act Section 45, 47, 67
Headnote
B Evidence Act, 1872: Sections 45, 47 & 67-Jdentity of handwriting in a document-" Opinion of third person, when relevant"-Discussed-Also held, Sections 45 and 47 C are not exhaustive for proving the genuineness or authorship of a document. Expert Witness-Reliability of-Two letters were written by that accused-Defence producing Expert witness to D show that the opinion of the Govt. Examiner faulty-Discarded by the High Court-Held, many so called experts have shown to be remunerated witnesses making themselves available on hire to pledge their faith in favour of the
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