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Section 341 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
Section 161 in The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [Entire Act]
Section 207 in The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 [Entire Act]
Bhajju @ Karan Singh vs State Of M.P on 15 March, 2012
In Bhajju @ Karan Singh Vs. State of M.P. reported at 2012
Crl. L.J. 1926, it has been laid down as under:
The Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
A.Shankar vs State Of Karnataka on 9 June, 2011
In the matter titled as A. Shanker Vs. State of Karnataka,
reported at AIR 2011 SC 2302, it has been held by Hon'ble Supreme Court
as under:
"17. In all criminal cases, normal discrepancies are bound to
occur in the depositions of witnesses due to normal errors of
observation, namely, errors of memory due to lapse of time or
due to mental disposition such as shock and horror at the time of
occurrence. Where the omissions amount to a contradiction,
creating a serious doubt about the truthfulness of the witness and
other witnesses also make material improvement while deposing
in the Court, such evidence cannot be safe to rely upon.
However, minor contradictions, inconsistencies, embellishments
or improvements on trivial matters which do not affect the core of
the prosecution case, should not be made a ground on which the
evidence can be rejected in its entirety. The Court has to form its
opinion about the credibility of the witness and record a finding
as to whether his deposition inspires confidence. Exaggerations
per se do not render the evidence brittle. But it can be one of the
State V/s Sumit etc. ("convicted") Page 25 of 29
FIR No. 204/05; U/s 308/323/341/34 IPC; P.S. Saraswati Vihar DOD: 29 .10.2014
factors to test credibility of the prosecution version, when the
entire evidence is put in a crucible for being tested on the
touchstone of credibility. Therefore, mere marginal variations in
the statements of a witness cannot be dubbed as improvements as
the same may be elaborations of the statement made by the
witness earlier.
Section 308 in The Indian Penal Code, 1860 [Entire Act]
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