State Of Kerala vs Thomas Cherian And Ors. on 11 August, 1982
This decision also does not preclude the court from looking into the corroborating evidence in considering the reliability of the evidence of the approver. As held in the decision in Major E. G. Bar-say v. State of Bombay . It is open to the court to look into the corroborative evidence to consider the question of reliability of the approver's evidence and then to consider whether there is corroboration in material particulars of the prosecution case.