Supreme Court of India

The State of Bihar v. Basawan Singh

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Reported as [1959] 1 S.C.R. 195
Bench Vivian Bose J.
Decided 21 March 1958

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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

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