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Home National Gujarat Ahmedabad

Ocular evidence best evidence unless there are reasons to doubt it, says SC & restores lifer for 4

The observations came while delivering a judgment on an appeal against a Gujarat High Court order of acquittal, reversing the conviction of four persons

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Ocular evidence best evidence unless there are reasons to doubt it, says SC & restores lifer for 4
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NE LEGAL BUREAU

NEW DELHI, JULY 26

Ocular evidence is considered the best evidence unless there are reasons to doubt it, the Supreme Court said on Monday while restoring the life imprisonment awarded to four persons convicted for murder.

A bench of Justices Navin Sinha and R Subhash Reddy said it is only in a case where there is a gross contradiction between medical evidence and oral evidence, the ocular evidence may be disbelieved.

“Ocular evidence is considered the best evidence unless there are reasons to doubt it. It is only in a case where there is a gross contradiction between medical evidence and oral evidence, and the medical evidence makes the ocular testimony improbable and rules out all possibility of ocular evidence being true, the ocular evidence may be disbelieved.,” the bench said

The observations came while delivering a judgment on an appeal against a Gujarat High Court order of acquittal, reversing the conviction of four persons under Sections 302 (murder), 34 (common intention), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) sentencing them to life imprisonment and fifteen days imprisonment under Section 135(1) of the Bombay Police Act.

The deceased was assaulted in October 2003 while he was returning on a motorcycle along with a prosecution witness who was the pillion rider.

The convict assaulted the victim with an iron pipe, steel rod, and stick, causing three stab wounds and nine incised wounds.

The acquittal was based on the reasoning that the evidence of the eye­witnesses of second prosecution witness and tenth prosecution witness is inconsistent with the medical evidence, regarding the nature of injuries vis-­à­-vis the weapons of offense.

The apex court said there was no time for the witness to consider and ponder for naming the accused except to state the truth.

The criminal jurisprudence developed in this country recognises that the eye sight capacity of those who live in rural areas is far better than compared to the town folks, the apex court said.

“Identification at night between known persons is acknowledged to be possible by voice, silhouette, shadow, and gait also.  Therefore, we do not find much substance in the submission of the respondents that identification was not possible in the night to give them the benefit of doubt.

 

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