https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169370 When a court exercises its power to call and examine fresh evidence in a criminal case, fairness and natural justice require that the accused be given a reasonable opportunity to rebut that material; refusal to permit defence evidence in answer to it is a serious procedural infirmity. The Court also noted that concurrent findings based on reliable eyewitness, injured-witness and contemporaneous documentary evidence will not be disturbed merely because of minor discrepancies or unproved objections to recovery evidence. On the record, the challenge to the prosecution case failed, and the convictions and sentences were left undisturbed. en-us Wed, 15 Feb 1978 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 17 Apr 2015 11:54:29 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169370 When a court exercises its power to call and examine fresh evidence in a criminal case, fairness and natural justice require that the accused be given a reasonable opportunity to rebut that material; refusal to permit defence evidence in answer to it is a serious procedural infirmity. The Court also noted that concurrent findings based on reliable eyewitness, injured-witness and contemporaneous documentary evidence will not be disturbed merely because of minor discrepancies or unproved objections to recovery evidence. On the record, the challenge to the prosecution case failed, and the convictions and sentences were left undisturbed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 15 Feb 1978 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=169370