Court : Chhattisgarh
Reported in : 2009CriLJ2559
..... in india and the witnesses cannot be branded as liar. while dealing with the same question in the matter of dalbir singh v. state of haryana : 2008 air scw 3957 : 2008 cri lj 3061 it has been held by the apex court that maxim - falsus in uno falsus in omnibus i.e. false in one thing, false ..... demonstrably incorrect or doubtful. the astute judge can separate the grains of acceptable truth from the chaff of exaggeration and improbabilities which cannot be safely prudently accepted or acted upon. it is sound commonsense to refuse to apply mechanically, in assessing the worth of necessarily imperfect human testimony, the maxim: 'falsus in uno falsus in ..... and contradictions. the court is required to separate the grains of acceptable truth from the chaff of exaggerations and improbabilities which cannot be safely or prudently accepted and acted upon. while dealing with the same question in the matter of laxman v. state of maharashtra it has been held by the supreme court that witnesses cannot .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chhattisgarh
Reported in : 2004CriLJ2931; 2003(4)MPHT8(CG)
..... left his house after taking away the money, jhabua (a basket for carrying things) and other items. on this, udsiya bai mother of the deceased approached the sarpanch, gram panchayat, bhatagaon namely, dwarika prasad who advised her to report the matter to the police station. when udsiya bai was going to lodge the report in the police station, ..... and sister of the deceased to find out the whereabouts of the deceased. this conduct of the accused is also admissible in evidence under section 8 of the evidence act.(d) the other circumstance against the accused/appellant is that he has not informed anybody about the missing of deceased tikeshwari bai. on the contrary, he gave ..... ex. p-4. during the investigation, accused/appellant bhanu kanwar was arrested and on enquiry he gave the information (ex. p-27) under section 27 of the evidence act and on his information one purse, silver rings and the white shining ear rings were taken into possession through ex. p-8. in the presence of the witnesses, .....
Tag this Judgment!Court : Chhattisgarh
Reported in : 2009CriLJ4344
..... lonely rajkumari an easy prey and after overpowering her gang raped her purely for satisfying their lust and brutally committed her murder by throttling her thereafter. the act of the appellants/accused was not on account of any enmity or revenge. there are no mitigating circumstances in this case which would call for imposition ..... would also kill him (emphasis supplied by me) if he disclosed the incident to anyone which shows that while committing murder of rajkumari the appellants/accused were acting in furtherance of their common intention. thus, absence of evidence as to which of the appellants/accused actually throttled rajkumari to death does not, in any manner ..... other co-accused was one of the most aggravating circumstances which would justify the extreme penalty, i.e., death sentence. it was further argued that the act of the appellants/accused was premeditated since before commission of rape they had assembled in the house of appellant ranjeet and had consumed liquor. the manner in .....
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