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The State Of Bihar vs Md.Akhtar @ Kari And Others on 27 June, 2008

(b) The earliest of the leading judgments in matters of appeal at the instance of the State against acquittal was in the judgments of the Privy Council in the case of Sheo Swarup & Ors Vs King Emperor, 1934 Privy Council 227, and in the case of Noor Mohammad Vs Emperor, 1945 Privy Council 151. The Privy Council observed that in such appeals, the High Court has full power to appraise all the evidences upon which order of acquittal was founded. In the first case referred to above, the Privy Council observed that if the judgment of trial court is perverse or based on distorted conclusion, or where the original court has blundered, the appellate court can always convert the judgment of acquittal into conviction.
Patna High Court Cites 16 - Cited by 4 - S P Singh - Full Document

Parbati Debi vs The State on 4 September, 1951

11. The observations of the Court of Criminal Appeal in King v. Baskerville, (1916) 2 K. B. 658 had been interpreted in Noor Ahmed v. Emperor, 38 Cal. W. N. 108 to support the principle that it was extremely dangerous and,permissible only in exceptional cases to convict a man of a sexual offence on the uncorroborated testimony of the complainant, This rule must be properly emphasised in the charge to the Jury. If there be any corroborative evidence whether such evidence is sufficient or not would depend on the facts and circumstances of each case.
Calcutta High Court Cites 8 - Cited by 5 - Full Document
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