https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=195957 A trap witness who also lodged the FIR is not automatically disqualified from investigation; the inquiry fails only if real bias or prejudice is shown, and no such unfairness was established here. A hostile witness is not wholly effaced from the record and may be relied on to the extent its testimony is corroborated by other trustworthy evidence, which occurred here. In a corruption prosecution, demand is a sine qua non, but demand, acceptance and recovery of tainted money, supported by the shadow witness, trap officer, phenolphthalein test and surrounding circumstances, attracted the statutory presumption under Section 20, which remained unrebutted. en-us Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 11 Nov 2022 12:02:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=195957 A trap witness who also lodged the FIR is not automatically disqualified from investigation; the inquiry fails only if real bias or prejudice is shown, and no such unfairness was established here. A hostile witness is not wholly effaced from the record and may be relied on to the extent its testimony is corroborated by other trustworthy evidence, which occurred here. In a corruption prosecution, demand is a sine qua non, but demand, acceptance and recovery of tainted money, supported by the shadow witness, trap officer, phenolphthalein test and surrounding circumstances, attracted the statutory presumption under Section 20, which remained unrebutted. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 21 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=195957