https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299603 Trustworthy testimony of an injured witness and other corroborative ocular evidence can sustain convictions even where the defence alleges delay in lodging or forwarding the FIR, inconsistencies with medical evidence, absence of independent witnesses, and self-defence. The Court found no material delay that would vitiate the prosecution case, and treated minor medical-ocular discrepancies as non-fatal because the injuries and manner of assault were substantially supported by the record. It also reaffirmed that related witnesses may be accepted if reliable, and that reversal of acquittal is justified only where the trial court's view is perverse or unsustainable. en-us Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 22 Dec 2021 13:24:41 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299603 Trustworthy testimony of an injured witness and other corroborative ocular evidence can sustain convictions even where the defence alleges delay in lodging or forwarding the FIR, inconsistencies with medical evidence, absence of independent witnesses, and self-defence. The Court found no material delay that would vitiate the prosecution case, and treated minor medical-ocular discrepancies as non-fatal because the injuries and manner of assault were substantially supported by the record. It also reaffirmed that related witnesses may be accepted if reliable, and that reversal of acquittal is justified only where the trial court's view is perverse or unsustainable. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=299603