Supreme Court of India

Vemireddy Satyanarayan Reddy and Three Others v. The State of Hyderabad

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Reported as [1956] 1 S.C.R. 247
Bench Vivian Bose and Chandrasekhara Aiyar JJ.
Decided 14 March 1956

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Crime, perpetration of- person present but not aiding or abet­ ting-Whether principal or accessory-Corroboration of the statement of a single witness against accused-What the law requires. There is no warrant for the extreme proposition that if a man sees the perpetration of a crime and does not give information of it to anyone else, he might well be regarded in law as an accomplice and that he could be put in the dock with the actual criminals. person may be present, and, if not aiding and abetting, be neither principal nor accessory; as, if , happens to be present at a murder and takes no

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