Supreme Court · 1999 INSC 451 · Decided 1 October 1999
Sukhar v. State of Uttar Pradesh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1999 INSC 451 · [1999] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 314
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 1985/1996
- Decided
- 1 October 1999
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, M. SRINIVASAN, N. SANTOSH HEGDE (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 307; CrPC Section 161; Evidence Act Section 6, 32, 33
Headnote
Penal Code, 1860-5.307-Conviction of an accused on the uncor­ roborated evidence of a witness, inimical to accused-Validity of-Enmity due C to forcible cultivation of land-Accused firi11g at victim and causing in­ jury-Hearing alann, witness reaching the spot-Statement of witness that present examined to co"oborate the evidence of said witness---Held; accused cannot be convicted on the unreliable and shaky D evidence of witness without c01roboration-Conviction and sentence set aside-Evide1lce Act, 1872. E F Evidence Act, 1872 : S. 6-Hearsay evidence-Admissibility of
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