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Related witness and interested witness, 'related' is not equivalent to 'interested'. A witness may be called 'interested' only when he or she derives some benefit from the result of a litigation; in the decree in a civil case, or in seeing an accused person punished. A witness who is a natural one and is the only possible eyewitness in the circumstances of a case cannot be said to be 'interested', State of Rajasthan v. Kalki, AIR 1981 SC 1390 (1391): (1981) 2 SCC 752: (1981) 3 SCR 504. (Evidence Act, 1872, s. 3)