Supreme Court of India

Alamgir v. State (nct. Delhi)

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Reported as [2002] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 88
Decided 12 November 2002

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

From the headnote

Penal Code, 1860-Section 302-Murder-Circumstantial evidence­ Conviction by Courts below-On appeal, held, the chain of events of the present case pointedly point out to the guilt of the accusei-Evidence Act, 1872-Circumstantial evidence. Criminal Trial: Interested witness-Evidentiary value of-Held, interested witness by itself cannot be a ground to reject the evidence on record-Test of its ' creditworthiness or acceptability ought to be the guiding factor. Expert opinion-Evidence of Handwriting expert-Reliability on-Jn absence of corroboration-Held, there is no rule of law or rule of prudence

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 referred to

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