interested witnesses?
(B) Whether the testimony of interested / inimical witnesses
G. Ashok Kumar (PW-9) & Smt. G. Tulsi Beni (PW-11) can be
relied ... have some kind of animosity with the accused are called inimical
witnesses.
31. In the matter of Lakshmi Singh v. The State of Bihar
interested witnesses?
(B) Whether the testimony of interested / inimical witnesses
G. Ashok Kumar (PW-9) & Smt. G. Tulsi Beni (PW-11) can be
relied ... have some kind of animosity with the accused are called inimical
witnesses.
31. In the matter of Lakshmi Singh v. The State of Bihar
prosecution story was
not reliable since the eye-witnesses were interested and other
witnesses were inimical and had the motive to falsely implicate the
accused ... State of U.P., (1998) 7 SCC 177].
Testimony of Interested/Inimical Witnesses
24. On the issue of appreciation of evidence of interested witnesses,
Dalip
real culprits and falsely
implicate an innocent
person. How the
interested/inimical witnesses witnesses are to be appreciated
has been succinctly dealt with ... well settled that the evidence of
.
interested or inimical witnesses is to be
scrutinised with care but cannot be rejected
merely on the ground
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eyewitnesses is not trustworthy inasmuch as they are interested/inimical witnesses and deposed against the accused out of animosity.
Lastly, it is stated that there ... discarded.
On the issue of appreciation of evidence of interested/inimical witnesses, it is well settled that the evidence of interested or inimical witnesses
Bhola and (PW-3) Amit Kumar Rawat are interested and inimical witnesses. (PW-1) Manoj Kumar Yadav is brother of deceased Raj Kumar while ... Court:
"The requirement of law is that the testimony of inimical witnesses has to be considered with caution. If otherwise the witnesses are true
Apex Court has observed as under:
Testimony of interested/inimical witnesses
On the issue of appreciation of evidence of interested witnesses, Dalip Singh v. State ... well settled that the evidence of interested or inimical witnesses is to be scrutinised with care but cannot be rejected merely on the ground
eyewitness account, branded
them inimical witness must be discarded. The requirement of law is
that the testimony of inimical witnesses has to be considered with ... well-settled legal principle. The witnesses
examined on behalf of the prosecution, apart from being eye-
witnesses, were injured witnesses. Their presence at the place
fairly settled position in law that when witnesses are branded as partisan or inimical, their evidence has to be analysed with care and scrutiny. That ... they are natural witnesses and their presence at the alleged place of occurrence cannot be doubted. The names of these two witnesses were disclosed
