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Pawan Kumar vs The Delhi Administration on 17 August, 1987

12. The prosecution has failed to examine any public witness therefore, the version of the prosecution has remained uncorroborated by an independent material witness. The witness that is examined by the prosecution in the present case is police witness, who is interested in the success of the prosecution case and therefore, the probability of him 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 credence/reliability, unless it is corroborated by independent material witness. In view of above discussion it is duly established that genuine efforts were not made by the IO of the case to join the public witness. The non joining of the public witness creates doubt in the story of the prosecution as held in Pawan Kumar Vs. Delhi Administration 1987 CC 585 Delhi High Court.
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