Supreme Court of India

Darbara Singh v. State of Punjab

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Reported as [2012] 7 S.C.R. 541

Bench Dr. B.S. Chauhan and Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kalifulla JJ.

Decided 12 September 2012

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From the headnote

Criminal trial - Evidence - Inconsistency between medical evidence and ocular evidence - Effect of - Conviction of appellant u/s.302 /PC - Challenge to - Defence plea that the manner in which appellant had been accused· of causing injury to the deceased was not at all possible because the medical evidence was not in consonance with the ocular evidence - Held: Not tenable - In the event of contradictions between medical and ocular evidence, the ocular testimony of a witness will have greater evidentiary value vis-a-vis medical evidence and when medical evidence makes the oral testimony

Authorities it was built on

2008 State of U.P. v. Kishanpal & Ors cited by 23
1999 Rajesh Govind Jagesha v. State of Maharashtra cited by 21
2011 Bhajan Singh @ Harbhajan Singh & Ors. v. State of Haryana cited by 11
2011 Rafiq Ahmed @ Rafi v. State of U.P. cited by 7
2011 Sheo Shankar Singh v. State of Jharkhand & Anr. cited by 7
2009 Sanichar Sahni v. The State of Bihar cited by 7
2009 State of U.P. v. Hari Chand cited by 6
1996 Dhanna Etc. v. State of Madhya Pradesh cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2014 Pal Singh & Anr. v. State of Punjab relied on
2013 C.B.I. v. Ashok Kumar Aggarwal relied on
2013 Union of India & Ors. v. Ex-gnr Ajeet Singh relied on
2024 Sunita Devi v. The State of Bihar & Anr referred to
2022 Ashok Kumar Singh Chandel v. State of U.P. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 2 referred to

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