Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 1353 · Decided 20 November 1996
Hardev Singh v. Harbhej Singh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 1353 · [1996] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 856
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 557/1988
- Decided
- 20 November 1996
- Bench
- M.K. MUKHERJEE, S.P. KURDUKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 3241149, 449, 302, 34, 324; CrPC Section 154
Headnote
Criminal Law : Criminal Trial-Witness-Closely related-Evidence of-Both C witnesses gave minute details of weapons used by accused and manner of assaulting deceased-Their evidence corroborated from fact that bloodstained earth seized from site of occurrence contained human blood­ However, one be rejected merely on ground that they happened to be relatives-However, evidence of such witnesses must D be scrutinised very carefully. In the facts and circumstances of the case, non-explanation of one of two gunshot injuries would neither dilute their evidence nor their presence could be
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