Supreme Court of India

Sahib Singh v. State of Haryana

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Reported as [1997] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 95

Bench M.K. Mukherjee and S. Saghir Ahmad JJ.

Decided 28 July 1997

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated above, the appeal is allowed, the judgment dated 8.2.1994 passed by the trial court is set aside and the appellant is F acquitted of all the charges.

Judgment, page 21

From the headnote

Terrorist & Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act, 1987-Penal Code 1860; Criminal Trial-S.302/34 1PC read with S.3(2) of the Act-Interested Witness-Prosecution relying on evidence of f amity members of the deceased-No independent witnesses examined-Enmity between accused and f amity members of the deceased-Such witnesses testifying the presence of a dead person along with the accused at the place of incident-Conviction on the testimony of such witnesses whether sustainable-Held, witnesses who are related to the deceased are as competent to depose the facts as any other witness----Mere

Authorities it was built on

1960 State of U.P. v. Deoman Upadhyaya cited by 33
1995 Kartik Malhar v. State of Bihar cited by 12
1981 Jagrup Singh v. State of Haryana cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2013 Ibrahim Musa Chauhan @ Baba Chauhan v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2025 P Krishna Mohan Reddy v. The State of Andhra Pradesh referred to
2011 Bhajan Singh @ Harbhajan Singh & Ors. v. State of Haryana referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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