interested witness Archives

Justice Must Prevail Over Witch-Hunting, Superstition & Irrational Beliefs; SC Affirms Murder Conviction

The Court condemned witch-hunting as a “malady” that lets prejudice and superstition override the rule of law and constitutional morality, affirming the murder conviction and stressing that reason must prevail over collective irrationality.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court upholds Trial Court’s conviction order for raping his one year old niece

A murderer destroys the physical frame of a victim, a rapist degrades and defiles the soul of a helpless female.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Not necessary that every eyewitness who had seen the accused hitting the victim should also receive injuries to prove an offence: SC

Supreme Court: Explaining the law on the credibility of the testimony of an interested eye-witness, the bench of NV Ramana and SA

Case Briefs High Courts

Witnesses related to deceased cannot be termed ‘interested witnesses’ on those grounds solely

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench comprising of Mukta Gupta and Navin Chawla, JJ. partly allowed an appeal, modifying the appellant’s conviction

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Conviction can be based on the truthful testimonies of the eye witness even if they were related to the deceased

Supreme Court: In the case where 5 appellants, convicted under Section 302 read with Section 149 IPC, had approached the Court with