eyewitness Archives

Delhi High Court upheld life term of six murder convicts who shot a man dead in personal enmity

The Delhi HIgh Court opined that eyewitness running away and hiding at the time of firing and then coming for the rescue of the deceased is not unnatural as self-preservation is the first instinct of a human being.

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court upholds life imprisonment of a man convicted for murdering his wife and for assaulting daughter

The Delhi High Court upheld the Trial Court’s decision of awarding life imprisonment to a man convicted for murdering his wife and assaulting his daughter.

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

Evidence led by child witness if found reliable, can’t be dismissed merely on the ground that the same was made by a child

Uttaranchal High Court: The Court recently addressed a criminal petition in which the appellant had appealed against his conviction by trial court