Supreme Court of India

Ranbir and Ors. v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [1974] 1 S.C.R. 102
Decided 26 April 1973

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idence-Appraisal in cases of party factions. The appellants were convicted under Ss. 148 and 325/149 I.P. . Dismiss· ing the appeal to this Court by special leave, HELD : ( ( 1) In cases of party factions, there is generally speaking a ten­ dency on the part of the prosecution witnesses to implicate some innocent per­ sons along with the guilty ones, but normally where the general substratum of the occurrence cannot be held to arouse any reasonable doubt or suspicion about its having taken place, then the prosecution witnesses, provided they are held to have witnessed the occurrence and to be

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