Supreme Court · 2001 INSC 3 · Decided 3 January 2001
Suryanarayana v. State of Karnataka
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2001 INSC 3 · [2001] 1 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. 522/1999
- Decided
- 3 January 2001
- Bench
- K.T. THOMAS, R.P. SETHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 302; Evidence Act
Headnote
B Criminal Law : Evidence Act, 1872 : c Section 118-Witness--Oiild iritness-Competence to testifj~Evidentia1)' mlue of-Conviction based sole(v upon that evidence-Validity-Held: the evidence of child witness cannot be rejected per se-Hoirever, such evidence should be subjected to close scrutiny of tllloring of child witness must be ruled out-On facts, conviction based D upon the sole evidence of child witness upheld-Penal Code, 1860, S.302. The appellant-accused was convicted by the trial court under Section 302 of the Penal Cod~, 1860 and sentenced to undergo
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