Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 446 · Decided 14 September 2000
Hukam Singh and ORS. v. State of Rajasthan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 446 · [2000] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 284
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 261/1998
- Decided
- 14 September 2000
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302134, 34, 201; CrPC Section 226, 231, 313, 379
Headnote
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973-Sections 226, 231, 313, 379- During the course ·of trial, Public Prosecutor not examining the only two independent witnesses having learnt that those two witnesses would speak C against the prosecution version-Propriety of-Held, if the Public Prosecutor knew is at liberty to state before the caurt that fact and skip those witnesses being examined as a prosecution witness-If the version which any particular witness might speak in court is D not in support of the prosecution case, it would be unreasonable to insist on the Public Prosecutor to examine
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