Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 57 · Decided 15 February 1977
Magan Bihari Lal v. State of PUNJAB.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 57 · [1977] 2 S.C.R. 1007
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 22/1976
- Decided
- 15 February 1977
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 468, 411, 1091420, 109, 420; Evidence Act
Headnote
Evidence-Value of opinion evidence-Conviction on the basis solely of opinion evidence of q handwriting expert without corroboration is unsafe­ Evidence Act (Act No. 1 of 1872), s. 45-Probative value of circumstantial evidence. A' B A certain consignment of iron sheets despatched by Mis. · 4875 was carried to Ludhiana via. Agra because at some point of time before it reached Aara, the labels attached to the wagons were either changed or removed and the entry in the vehicle summary guidance was also tampered with and chaneed to EXLAR to LDH indicating that the wagon was
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