Supreme Court of India

Hardev Singh v. Harbhej Singh and Ors.

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 856
Bench M.K. Mukherjee and S.P. Kurdukar JJ.
Decided 20 November 1996

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that every finding· recorded by the High Court is patently wrong and unsustainable.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Criminal Law : Criminal Trial-Witness-Closely related-Evidence of-Both witnesses gave minute details of weapons used by accused and manner of assaulting deceased-Their evidence corroborated from fact that bloodstained earth seized from site of occurrence contained human blood­ However, one of two gunshot injuries not explained by these two witnesses­ He/d: Evidence of close relatives not to be rejected merely on ground that they happened to be relatives-However, evidence of such witnesses must be scrutinised very carefully. In the facts and circumstances of the case, non-explanation of one of

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