Rabindra Kumar Dey vs State Of Orissa on 31 August, 1976
In
the case of Sayed Akbar Vs. State of Karnataka, AIR 1979 SC 1843 it was
held that the evidence of the prosecution witness cannot be rejected
wholesale merely on the ground that prosecution had dubbed him 'hostile'
and had cross examined him. In Rabinder Kumar Dey Vs. State of Orissa,
AIR 1977 SC 170, it was held that mere fact that witness is declared hostile
by the party calling him and allowed to be cross examined does not make
him unreliable evidence so as to exclude his evidence from consideration
all together.