State vs . Murtaza on 10 March, 2015
13. The prosecution has failed to examine any public witness
therefore, the version of the prosecution has remained uncorroborated
by an independent material witness. The witnesses that are examined
by the prosecution in the present case are police witnesses, who are
interested in the success of the prosecution case and therefore, the
probability of them being guided by the extraneous factors, other than
truth, cannot be ruled out. The police witnesses cannot be straightaway
termed as unreliable witnesses, however, when there is a possibility of
joining any public witness in the investigation and still no genuine and
sincere efforts are made to join the independent person as witness,
then the testimony of the police witness does not lend sufficient
State Vs. Murtaza
FIR No. 45/12
U/s 33/53 Delhi Excise Act.