Supreme Court of India

Balwant Kaur v. Union Territory of Chandigarh

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Reported as [1988] 1 S.C.R. 745
Bench A.P. Sen J.
Decided 3 November 1987

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What the Court ordered

We hold that evidence in corroboration must be indepen­ dent testimony which affects the accused by connecting or tending to connect him with the crime.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Indian Evidence Act, 1872: Section 114 Ill. (b) and 133- Accomplice's evidence-Credibility of-Nature and extent of corro­ boration-Necessity for-Accused's conviction-On uncorroborated evidence-Effect of. 1. Criminal Procedure Code, 1973: Section 313-Approver's tes- timony-To be put to accused in examination-Necessity for. The prosecution alleged that the married life of the appellant, who ·was said to be 151/z years of age, was in a serious dis~rray, that she and the non-appealing accused were on terms of illicit intimacy, that she also submitted herself to PW 2 in an extra-marital relation,

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on

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