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Supreme Court Monthly Round-Up [October 2023]
1 year, 2 months ago

Supreme Court Monthly Round-Up [October 2023]

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Nominal Index Pankaj Bansal v. Union of India, Basant Bansal v. Union of India 2023 LiveLaw 844 Aditya Khaitan & Ors. GEETHA, D/O LATE KRISHNA v. NANJUNDASWAMY 2023 LiveLaw 940 Anjali Bhardwaj & Ors v. Union of India 2023 LiveLaw 942 Manish Sisodia v. Central Bureau of Investigation 2023 LiveLaw 944 Judgments/Orders Mere Non-Cooperation To ED Summons Not A Ground …

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Contradiction In Witness's Statements To Police And In Trials Won’t Affects Their Credibility
1 year, 2 months ago

Contradiction In Witness's Statements To Police And In Trials Won’t Affects Their Credibility

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The Supreme Court recently observed that a witness will not stand totally discredited merely because the testimony given during the trial contradicted the earlier statement given to the police. "No doubt statement given before police during investigation under Section 161 are “previous statements” under Section 145 of the Evidence Act and therefore can be used to cross examine a witness. …

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Sterling Witness Should Be Of High Quality Whose Version Is Unassailable: Supreme Court
1 year, 2 months ago

Sterling Witness Should Be Of High Quality Whose Version Is Unassailable: Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court recently held that the evidence of an eye-witness should be of very sterling quality and caliber and it should not only instill confidence in the court to accept the same but it should also be a version of such nature that can be accepted at its face value. The Court relied on Rai Sandeep @ Deepu alias …

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Conviction Cannot Be Based Solely On The Testimony Of A Wholly Unreliable Witness : Supreme Court
2 years, 7 months ago

Conviction Cannot Be Based Solely On The Testimony Of A Wholly Unreliable Witness : Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court observed that when the Court finds that a witness is "wholly unreliable", neither conviction nor acquittal can be based on the testimony of such a witness.In this case, the Trial Court convicted Mahendra Singh, Pritam Singh, Santosh, Shambhu Singh and Lakhan Singh under Section 148, 302 read with Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. The Supreme …

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Debunking Legal Myths On Hostile Witness Under The Indian Evidence Act, 1872
4 years, 5 months ago

Debunking Legal Myths On Hostile Witness Under The Indian Evidence Act, 1872

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According to Jeremy Bentham, "Witnesses are the eyes and ears of justice" It is a conventional rule of criminal jurisprudence that the guilt of an accused is to be proved beyond all reasonable doubts, until then, he shall be presumed to be innocent. Section 3 of the Criminal Procedure Act, 1865 reads as follows: "A party producing a witness shall …

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Art Of Cross-examination : Basic Canons
4 years, 8 months ago

Art Of Cross-examination : Basic Canons

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Introduction : The law of evidence is a system of rules for ascertaining controverted questions of fact in a judicial investigation of the dispute before the Court. Primarily, statements made by a witness in their Evidence by way of Affidavit or in examination-in-chief, along with exhibited documents, are the basis for every cross-examination, in all types of cases, i.e. At …

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