Supreme Court of India

Kirender Sarkar and Ors. v. State of Assam

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Reported as [2009] 6 S.C.R. 1133
Decided 27 April 2009

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From the headnote

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

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 mentioned

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