Sat Pal vs Delhi Administration on 29 September, 1975
As a legal proposition, it is now settled by the
decisions of this Court, that the evidence of a prosecution
witness cannot be rejected wholesale, merely on the ground
that the prosecution had dubbed him 'hostile' and had cross-
examined him. We need say no more than reiterate what this
Court said on this point in Sat Paul v. Delhi Administration
(1):