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SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

Year of decision: 2011
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Evidence Act, 1872, Section 154 -- Hostile witness - Evidence of a hostile witness remains the admissible evidence and it is open to the Court to rely upon the dependable part of that evidence which is found to be acceptable and duly corroborated by some other reliable evidence available on record...........

DELHI HIGH COURT

Year of decision: 2010
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Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 13(2), 13(1)(d),, 7 -- Illegal gratification - Bank Manager demanded and accepted illegal gratification for sanctioning loan - Loan stood already sanctioned and disbursed a day before complaint - Shadow witness did not accompany complainant to prove demand and acceptance of bribe money - Complainant turned hostile during trial..........

MADRAS HIGH COURT

Year of decision: 2010
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Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 50 -- Recovery of morphine - Search and seizure - Not mandatory for the prosecution agency to take public witness for search and seizure - Independent witness even though turned hostile, admitted signature on seizure memos - Held, sufficient to warrant an inference that witnesses were present at the spot of..........

PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT

Year of decision: 2010
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Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 18 -- Opium - Recovery of 1.5 kg from accused - Non examination of two independent witnesses as they were claimed to be hostile - No fact or circumstance for drawing this inference pointed out especially when both of them were not examined and even when their examination-in-chief was not conducted - This fact..........

CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT

Year of decision: 2010
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Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 300, 449, 148, 460 -- Accused formed unlawful assembly, participated in rioting with deadly weapons, committed lurking house trespass and thereafter committed murder of two persons - Evidence of eye-witness cannot be rejected because another eye-witness turned hostile - Accused persons guilty of committing murder with aid of S.149 IPC -..........

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

Year of decision: 2010
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Evidence Act, 1872, Section 154 -- Hostile witness - Evidence of a hostile witness not to be totally rejected - Evidence of such witnesses can be accepted to the extent his version is found to be dependable on a careful scrutiny thereof...........

PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT

Year of decision: 2010
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Evidence Act, 1872, Section 154 -- Hostile witness - Supported prosecution case in examination-in-chief but resiled from certain things in his cross-examination - Proves evil design and money power which led the complainant to perjure the subsequent statement...........

PUNJAB AND HARYANA HIGH COURT

Year of decision: 2010
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Evidence Act, 1872, Section 154 -- Hostile witness - Testimony of a hostile witness cannot be ignored altogether but Court has to scrutinize his testimony and to find out the truth...........

CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT

Year of decision: 2010
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Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, Section 7, 16 -- Prevention of Food Adulteration Rules, 1955, Rule 22 - Quantity of 250 ml. milk as sample sent to Public Analyst for analysis - Sample found adulterated - Independent witness turned hostile - Held, evidence of Food Inspector and other official witnesses cannot be discarded merely because independent witness..........

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

Year of decision: 2010
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Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, Section 13(1)(d), 7, 20 -- Illegal gratification - Recovery from public servant - Two of the independent witnesses turned hostile - Accused convicted on the basis of testimony of the complainant and one official witness who absolutely have no reason to involve accused in a false case as no animosity of any kind suggested to them -..........

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