Supreme Court of India
Balwant Kaur v. Union Territory of Chandigarh
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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,
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