Supreme Court of India
Kirender Sarkar and Ors. v. State of Assam
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Penal Code, 1860 - ss.147, 448 and 323 - Conviction under, by Courts below - Challenged, on ground of non- c naming of some convicts in the FIR - Held: FIR is not an encyclopedia of the entire events and cannot contain the minutest details of the events - FIR is not substantive evidence and cannot be used for contradicting testimony of eye witnesses except that it may be used for purpose of contradicting maker of the report - Non-naming of one or few accused persons in the FIR is no reason to dis-believe the testimony of crucial witnesses - On facts, the evidence of PW- 1, who lodged the FIR,
Where later benches applied it
- 2013 Mritunjoy Biswas v. Pranab @ Kuti Biswas and Another
- 2016 Susanta Das & Ors. v. State of Orissa
Of those, 1 relied on · 1 mentioned
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