Supreme Court of India

Pandappa Hanumappa Hanamar and Anr. v. State of Karnataka

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Reported as [1997] 2 S.C.R. 529
Bench M.K. Mukherjee J.
Decided 28 February 1997

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In view of the above tests laid down by this Court for appreciating A the evidence of a hostile witness the trial Court was not at all justified in discarding the evidence of P.W. 1 altogether with the above quoted com­ ments and it ought to have considered her evidence in the light of the other evidence on record.

Judgment, page 13

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