Even Long Delay In Registration Of FIR Can Be Condoned If Witness Has No Motive For Falsely Implicating The Accused: SC [Read Judgment]

‘The medical jurisprudence is not an exact science with precision; but merely opinionative.’The Supreme Court has observed that even a long delay in registration of First Information Report can be condoned if the witness has no motive for falsely implicating the accused.The bench comprising Justice R. Banumathi and Justice Indira Banerjee was considering an appeal against conviction. ‘The medical jurisprudence is not an exact science with precision; but merely opinionative.’ The Supreme Court has observed that even a long delay in registration of First Information Report can be condoned if the witness has no motive for falsely implicating the accused. Even a long delay can be condoned if the witness has no motive for falsely implicating the accused. Being saddened by the death of her son, it must have taken sometime for PW-1 to come out of her shock and then proceed to police station to lodge the FIR.” Medical jurisprudence is not an exact science with precision; but merely opinionative On the contention that the ocular evidence is contradictory to the medical evidence, the bench said: “When the opinion given is not inconsistent with the probability of the case, the court cannot discard the credible direct evidence otherwise the administration of justice is to depend on the opinionative evidence of medical expert.