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State Of U.P vs Preetam & Ors on 31 March, 2011

11. In this case accused has taken the defence that no such incident has taken place and has examined one witness Vijender Singh who is uncle of accused, in DE, where he has deposed that he was present there at that time at the shop and accused has not used any abusive language against her. Apart from this witness counsel for accused has given suggestion to the complainant that accused has been wrongly framed by the complainant, but no reason has been given by the defence that why complainant will frame her as there is no animosity between them and they do not know each other before the incident. Coming to the testimony of DW-1, the testimony of witness can't be relied upon as he is uncle of accused and is an interested witness and his story does not fit into the situation. According to the story of prosecution incident happened outside house of complainant and there is no mention of any shop or tent house mentioned in site plan or in investigation by IO, but DW-1 has stated that accused was present in Tent house and complainant came there. It is settled law that testimony of interested witness needs to be read cautiously and should be corroborated by independent witness. So, the defence of accused appears to be an afterthought. Hence the testimony of DW-1 in unreliable and FIR No. 814/15 State Vs. Preetam Page No. 11 of 17 stands discarded.
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