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Anoop Kumar Joshi vs The State Of Delhi on 12 January, 2017

".........18. It is repeatedly laid down by this Court in such cases it should be shown by the police that sincere efforts have been made to join independent witnesses. In the present case, it is evidence that no such sincere efforts have been made, particularly when we find that shops were open and one or two shopkeepers could have been persuaded to join the raiding party to witness the recovery being made from the appellant. In case any of the shopkeepers had declined to join the raiding party, the police could have later on taken legal action against such shopkeepers because they could not have escaped the rigours of law while declining to perform their legal duty to assist the police in investigation as a citizen, which is an offence under the IPC."
Delhi High Court Cites 6 - Cited by 2089 - P S Teji - Full Document

Appabhai And Anr. vs State Of Gujarat on 5 February, 1988

22. This court is conscious of the legal position that non-joining of independent witnesses cannot be the sole ground to discard or doubt the prosecution case, as has been held in Appabhai and another v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1988 SC 696. However, evidence in every case is to be sifted through in light of the varied facts and circumstances of each individual case. As observed above, the testimony of the police witnesses in the present case is not worthy of credit. In such a situation, evidence of an independent witness would have rendered the much-needed corroborative value, to the otherwise uncompelling case of the prosecution, as discussed above, and hereinafter.
Supreme Court of India Cites 7 - Cited by 1334 - K J Shetty - Full Document
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