Supreme Court of India

Pratap Singh and Anr. v. State of Madhya Pradesh

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Reported as [2005] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 439
Bench S.B. Sinha and P.P. Naolekar JJ.
Decided 23 November 2005

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4 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that it cannot be said to be a case where the views of the learned Trial Judge could be said to be perverse meriting reversal thereof at the hands of the High Court.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Evidence: Minor-Witness-Contradiction in statement-Effect of-Minor stating that he went directly to his father and narrated the incident to him, whereas according to another witness, minor came to him first and then went to his father-Acquittal by Trial Court on the ground that the evidence of minor appeared doubtful-Correctness of-Held: Trial Court did not err in holding that suspicion had arisen as regards the correctness of statement made by minor and he might have been tutored Non-examination of eye witness-Effect of Non-examination of seizure witness-Effect of-Held: Seizure of material

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to

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