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State Of U.P. vs M.K. Anthony on 6 November, 1984
In the case of State of U.P. Vs. M.K. Anthony AIR (1985)
S.C. 48, this Court pointed out that while appreciating the
evidence of a witness, the approach must be whether evidence
of the witness read as a whole appears to have a ring of
truth. Once that impression is found, it is undoubtedly
necessary for the Court to scrutnise the evidence more
particularly keeping in view the deficiencies, drawbacks and
infirmities pointed out in the evidence as a whole and
evaluate them to find out whether it is against the general
tenor of the evidence and whether the earlier evaluation of
the evidence is shaken as to render it unworthy of belief.
Minor discrepancies of trivial matters not touching the core
of the case, hyper-technical approach in persuasion of the
evidence should be avoided. The Court pertinently observed:
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