Ring Of Truth: Supreme Court Lays Down Principles For Appreciation Of Ocular Evidence In Criminal Case

Case: Shahaja @ Shahajan Ismail Mohd. Shaikh vs State Of Maharashtra

Coram: Justices Surya Kant and JB Pardiwala

Case No.: CrA 739 OF 2017

Court Observation: “There is nothing palpable or glaring in the evidence of the two eye-witnesses on the basis of which we can take the view that they are not true or reliable eye-witnesses. Few contradictions in the form of omissions here or there is not sufficient to discard the entire evidence of the eye-witnesses.”

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Ring Of Truth, Principles For Appreciation Of Ocular Evidence