Supreme Court · 2002 INSC 316 · Decided 31 July 2002
Sucha Singh and ANR. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2002 INSC 316 · [2003] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 35
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1015/2002
- Decided
- 31 July 2002
- Bench
- DORAISWAMY RAJU, ARIJIT PASAYAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 34, 201; Evidence Act Section 3
Headnote
B Evidence Act, 1872-Section 3: Partisan witness-Credibility of-Held: Relationship does not affect credibility of a witness. C Major portion of evidence deficient leading to acquittal of number of accused-Residue sufficient to prove guilt of some accused-Credibility of­ Held: Accused can be grain from the chaff Criminal Trial: Rule of benefit of doubt-Applicability of D Reasonable doubt-It is fair doubt based upon reason and common sense and not on imaginary, trivial or nearly possible doubt-It must grow out E of evidence in the case. Discarding of evidence-Accused armed with
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)