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State Of Rajasthan vs Smt. Kalki & Anr on 15 April, 1981

"13. As regards the contention that all the eyewitnesses are close relatives of the deceased, it is by now well settled that a related witness cannot be said to be an "interested" witness merely by virtue of being a relative of the victim. This Court has elucidated the difference between "interested" and "related" witnesses in a plethora of cases, stating that a witness may be called interested only when he or she derives some benefit from the result of a litigation, which in the context of a criminal case would mean that the witness has a direct or indirect interest in seeing the accused punished due to prior enmity or other reasons, and thus has a motive to falsely implicate the accused (for instance, see State of Rajasthan v. Kalki (1981) 2 SCC 752; Amit v. State of U.P. (2012) 4 SCC 107 and Gangabhavani v.
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