Supreme Court of India
The State of Bihar v. Basawan Singh
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What the Court ordered
For the aforesaid reasons, we think that the learned• Judge of the High Court did not correctly appreciate the effect of the decision in Rao Shiv Bahadur Singh's case (') and he was in error in thinking that that deci sion laid down any inflexible rule that the evidence of the witnesses of the raiding party must be discarded in the absence of any independent corroboration.
Judgment, page 16
From the headnote
Criminal Law-Bribe-Trap-Testimony of the raiding party Reliability-I ndependent corroboration-Whether essential-Whether circumstantial evidence suJficient-Evidence of Magistrate interested in the trap-Evidence of accomplices and partisans-Reliability . The respondent, a sub-inspector of police, was charged with acceptance of Rs. roo as a bribe from two persons, and P, for dropping a case which he had instituted against under the Essential Supplies (Temporary Powers) Act, 1946. The prosecu tion case was that when the demand for the bribe made by the res.r-ondent could not be avoided, and P
Where later benches applied it
- 2026 Central Bureau of Investigation v. Baljeet Singh
- 2015 D. Velayutham v. State Rep. by Inspector of Police, Salem Town, Chennai
- 2015 Vinod Kumar v. State of Punjab
- 2012 Raju @ Balachandran & Ors. v. State of Tamil Nadu
- 2011 Mrinal Das & Ors. v. The State of Tripura
- 2010 C.M. Sharma v. State of A.P. Th. I.P.
- 2000 Narayan Chetanram Chaudhary and Anr. v. State of Maharashtra
- 1995 M.O. Shamsudhin v. State of Kerala.
- 1984 Khilli Ram v. State of Rajasthan
- 1978 Prakash Chand v. State (delhi Administration)
- 1977 Dagdu & Others Etc. v. State of Maharashtra
- 1974 Raghubir Singh v. State of Haryana
- 1968 Bhanuprasad Hariprasad Dave Rajuji Gambhirji v. The State of Gujarat
- 1963 A. S. Krishnappa Chettiar & Ors. v. Nachiappa Chettiar & Ors.
Of those, 1 referred to · 13 mentioned
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