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Interested, a close relative who is a very natural witness cannot be regarded as an interested witness. The term 'interested' postulates that the person concerned must have some direct interest in seeing that the accused person is somehow or the other convicted either because he had some animus with the accused or for some other reason, Dalbir Kaur v. State of Punjab, AIR 1977 SC 472: (1977) 1 SCR 280: (1976) 4 SCC 158.

Interested, postulates that the person concerned must have some direct interest in seeing the accused being convicted somehow or the other either because of animosity or some other reasons, State of Andhra Pradesh v. S. Rayappa, (2006) 4 SCC 512: (2006) 2 JT 392: (2006) 2 SCALE 321: (2006) 2 SLT 230: (2006) 3 SCJ 668: (2006) 4 SC JD 470: (2006) 3 SRJ 499: 2006 Cr LJ 1616: (2006) 2 SCC (Cri) 353: (2006) 1 Crimes 219 (SC): (2006) 1 JCC 396: (2006) 1 Recent CLR 966: (2006) 2 CRJ 363.