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Rai Sandeep @ Deepu vs State Of Nct Of Delhi on 7 August, 2012

In Rai Sandeep Vs. State (NCT of Delhi) CRL Appeal No. 2486/2009 decided on 07.08.2012, it has been held that " in our considered opinion, the sterling witness should be of a very high quality and caliber whose version should therefore be unassailable. The Court considering the version of such witness should be in a position to accept it for its face value without any hesitation. To test the quality of such a witness, the status of the witness should be immaterial and what would be relevant is the truthfulness of the statement made by such a witness. What would be more relevant would be the consistency of the statement right from the starting point till the end, namely, at the time when the witness makes the initial statement and ultimately before the Court. It should be natural and consistent with the case of the prosecution qua the accused. There should not be any prevarication in the version of such a witness. The witness should be in a position to withstand the cross-examination of any length howsoever strenuous it may be and under no circumstance should give room to any doubt as to the factum of the occurrence, the person involved, as well the sequence of it."
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